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Re: gzip compression

From: Manuel Lemos <mlemos_at_acm.org>
Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2011 05:09:50 -0300

Hello,

on 08/01/2011 04:43 AM Ryan Schmidt said the following:
>> Anyway, another odd thing is that the client always sends a request
>> header saying it can handle HTTP compression but SubVersion servers
>> seem to never compress responses.
>>
>> Given than a typical gzip encoding can compress text data about 5
>> times, it seemed to me there is a great opportunity to make
>> SubVersion HTTP server accesses much faster, but that opportunity
>> is not being addressed because SubVersion HTTP servers do not
>> compress responses. Again I maybe missing something here.
>
> I believe that's something you can set up in your httpd.conf if

Right, but AFAIK I have not seen any SubVersion repository that has
enabled the gzip compression, not even Google Code, despite these days
Google is all obcessed with performance.

> desired. It's a feature of Apache and not specific to (nor
> configurable from) Subversion.

Right but this is just an opportunity for SubVersion core developers to
think about adding gzip/deflate compression built-in mod_dav_svn,
because if they do not do it, no SubVersion repository is doing it and
SubVersion servers could be much faster then they are today but they aren't.

I am not sure what is the way to submit improvement suggestions, but if
any SubVersion core developer is reading this, please consider adding
gzip/deflate compression built-in mod_dav_svn.

--
Regards,
Manuel Lemos
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http://www.jsclasses.org/
Received on 2011-08-05 10:11:02 CEST

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