HI Adam,
Your speed vs time point is a good one. If the network is fast
then the time it takes the CPU to do the compression may negate any speed
benefits from compressing the message.
However, compression is generally worth it because:
* HTML compresses well - messages o
On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 08:11:16AM -0500, Nigel Hamilton wrote:
>
> * Even though your network may be fast - the last mile over a 28.8 K
> modem can be slow - and compression helps here
Most modems use compression protocols such as V.42bis. You don't gain
much, if anything, from compressing dat
I feel like most of my responses on this list ask 'why' rather than
answer a question but:
Assuming you have an internet connection between 1 Mb and 10 Mb
You're internal network is running at 100Mb with 1Gb around the corner
or already going.
Why bother compressing stuff when it seems clear tha
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Nigel Hamilton wrote:
>Even better ... is there a way to do SSL compression in mod_perl
>with only one server?
mod_deflate. http://sysoev.ru/mod_deflate/mod_deflate-1.0.15.tar.gz
Documentation is in Russian only but feel free to ask me directly.
There is also Babelfish trans
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 09:46:38PM -0500, Nigel Hamilton wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to hand all SSL requests to a backend mod_perl server
> with mod_gzip installed for compression.
>
> This means that SSL content is pre-compressed by the backend
> server before being encrypte
