[JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages

[Michael F Lin]

Is this in parallel to how SSL works with encryption or does SSL do
compression already? If so then lets just use SSL. If not, then I find the
idea of defining our own binary transport layer a bit unsettling. We're
talking XML, we should be above all that ;-)

-Mike



                                                                                                                                       
                      Julian Missig                                                                                                    
                      <julian at jabber.or        To:       jdev at jabber.org                                                               
                      g>                       cc:                                                                                     
                      Sent by:                 Subject:  Re: [JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages                                           
                      jdev-admin at jabber                                                                                                
                      .org                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                       
                      01/04/2002 04:57                                                                                                 
                      PM                                                                                                               
                      Please respond to                                                                                                
                      jdev                                                                                                             
                                                                                                                                       
                                                                                                                                       



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
--
email: julian at jabber.org
jabber:julian at jabber.org

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
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > Adam Theo
 >  <adamtheo at theoret        To:       jdev <jdev at jabber.org>
 >  ic.com>                  cc:
 >  Sent by:                 Subject:  [JDEV] GZipping Jabber Messages
 >  jdev-admin at jabber
 >  .org
 >
 >
 >
 > 01/04/2002 03:32
 >  PM
 >  Please respond to
 >  jdev
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 > 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...


_______________________________________________
jdev mailing list
jdev at jabber.org
http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev