[thelist] Server-side compression/browser decompression

[MarsHall]

On Thursday, Nov 21, 2002, at 15:04 US/Central, Dmitri Buterin wrote:
> In our research we have come across this system
> http://www.pipeboost.com
> It purports to work by integrating with Web server, compressing its
> output on the fly - and then says that modern browsers will decompress
> it on the fly. Thus, less data is transferred.

If you've been reading theList lately, then look back over the past
week at the thread discussing mod_gzip (an HTTP content compression
extension for Apache).

I know you're not using Apache, but on the PipeBoost site ( at
http://www.pipeboost.com/how.html ) it says that it uses zlib
compression. So, PipeBoost is just a commercial, IIS-specific
implementation of gzip content encoding... it will be susceptible to
the same server-load (minor) and proxy/cache (maybe serious) issues as
mod_gzip.

Mars :)