[JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages

[Julian Missig]

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).
 >
 > -Mike
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 > 01/04/2002 03:32
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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.
 >
 > 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...