On Monday 01 December 2003 20:42, Felix Karpfen wrote: > Inspired by other references in postings to this newsgroup, I downloaded > and looked at the latest version of ziproxy - and ended up thoroughly > confused. > > However, the "README.compress" file in WWWOFFLE-2.8 answered most of the > queries that were left unanswered by the ziproxy documentation. Two > queries remain: > > 1) image files are not compressed by WWWOFFLE because - according to the > documentation - they are already compressed. Is this standard > procedure; and
Yes. Ziproxy could do _lossy_ compression only, so that images look somewhat distorted. > 2) is there any benefit from running WWWOFFLE and ziproxy in tandem; and > if so, how? Ziproxy doesn't change the functionality of wwwoffled in any way. Thus all the advantages of wwwoffle (for example caching) remains. But when wwwoffle goes online , it depends on the remote server whether he uses to send compressed responses or not. Ziproxy can compress all responses. Overall real benefit is that wwwoffle fetches take about half the time. Juraj
