I did a fair amount of testing on a couple of systems and the numbers say that in real life, it's quite a significant gain except for some very specific cases. I'd say the article you quoted concludes the same. Even if the latency does not improve for ONE client, the next one will benefit as the *server's* network throughput increases.
On May 15, 9:10 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote: > wsgiserver does not serve zipped pages but: > - if you download web2py apps they are not zipped in .w2p files before > being served (this is a change) > - it does not matter that wsgiserver does not do it since in > production one should use mod_wsgi and that will do the zipping > - It is still not clear to me that that there is any advantage in > zipping content over http. > > Massimo > > On May 15, 10:42 am, LBarret <soy...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > in this > > threadhttp://groups.google.com/group/web2py/browse_thread/thread/cca9cf9e5f..., > > massimo said : > > > "data should (should?) be transmitted zipped by the web server. > > cherrpypy's wsgiserver cannot do it but apache does it. It is not > > clear that there is a real benefit since it takes time to zip/unzip." > > > Does anybody knows if this is still true ? > > > Lionel. > > > ref about gzip > > :http://henry.precheur.org/2009/4/23/GZIP_encoding_%3D_happier_users%3... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
