On Monday 24 Apr 2006 13:26, Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote: > Steve Basford escreveu: > > In order to optimize the use of my bandwidth for the unofficial > > phishing signatures, I want to put up a few > > example scripts on the main page of my site that users should use to > > download the phish.ndb file. > > I know this is a silly suggestion, but why not gzip/bzip2 the > signatures file ??? That would, for sure, save a LOT of bandwidth usage > from your servers !!! > > I have download phish.nbd now and it has 256735 bytes. bzip2ing it > took the file to 35111 bytes. gzipping with --best option took it to > 46424. In the worst case (gzip), you would be saving more than 210k per > download !!!!! > > Maybe you can keep both versions (compressed and uncompressed) for > some time and decide a final date for stop keeping the uncompressed one. > > How about that ?
or rsync? compression as part of the protocol, and only transfers the diffs ;-) sanesecurity.com would need rsync daemon running. -- ----------------- Bob Hutchinson Midwales dot com ----------------- _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
