[JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages
Julian Missig
julian at jabber.org
Fri Jan 4 15:57:16 CST 2002
Nah, I think they're talking about gzipping all of the data, sending it,
and ungzipping before sending it to the XML parser on the other side,
just like SSL works.
Julian
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Michael F Lin wrote:
> Keep in mind that the gzip data would have to be base64 coded, which
> would increase its size by 33%. So you can run the statistics and
> figure out how long your payloads have to be to get better than 33%
> compression ratios with gzip, but I imagine it is quite long
> relative to the average since of a Jabber packet
> (message/presence/iq).
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> Hi, all. There's a good discussion going on over at the DotGNU
> Developer list about gzip'ing the XML that is transmitted around on
> the DotGNU platform.
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> Was wondering if it would be possible to incorporate the same thing
> for future versions of the Jabber server? Is it feasible, anyway?
> They are saying the trade-offs for extra resource consumption would
> not be bad at all if designed into the server properly, and would
> reduce bandwidth very dramatically (like by 80%, i think). This
> would be useful for high-volume servers with enough processing
> power, i think...
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