Yeah you are right, I forget about relative URL, since I was trying to create a link for an email sent by the app...
Thanks for clarifying. 60 ms over and over could have been a great improvement overall if there was no relative url though. :) Richard On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 4:35 PM, Niphlod <niph...@gmail.com> wrote: > URL() generates relative links by default. No http or https.......plain > /app/controller/function links. > that being said, URL has scheme and host parameters that can generate > absolute links. > > Back to the "performance" side. Usually the "redirection" from http to > https is required at the very first access to the website, and is handled > directly by the webserver that is usually in front of web2py. > It takes generally 40 to 60 ms. > If your app uses relative links always, once you get to the https "main" > page, all links will point to https, without you worrying to pass host and > scheme all the time (that can surely hurt your "page weight" on average, in > addition to your tipings skills.) > Just to put things in perspective, this means that you're worrying over 60 > ms in the whole user experience of your app (even in a supersimple website, > users should stay there at least a minute in the app ?!?). > > You'd better waste sleep hours on something else :-P > > BTW: it's all here > http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/04/the-core#URL > > > On Wednesday, May 21, 2014 9:53:07 PM UTC+2, Richard wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> I am searching a way to make URL() return an address with HTTP"S" instead >> of plain HTTP. I didn't find a way to do that... >> >> There is : >> >> request.is_https >> request.requires_https() >> >> But they seem to be for preventing access to plain HTTP. >> >> So, that mean that URL() always redirect to HTTP and never to HTTPS... >> That may reduce performance, I had read long time ago that reducing >> redirection is "rule number 1" for improving loading speed... >> >> Maybe it could be a good idea to add a flag that let generate URL() with >> HTTPS instead of only HTTP?? >> >> Richard >> >> -- > Resources: > - http://web2py.com > - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) > - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) > - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Resources: - http://web2py.com - http://web2py.com/book (Documentation) - http://github.com/web2py/web2py (Source code) - https://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list (Report Issues) --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
