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Re: [WWWOFFLE-Users] cgiirc problems

Andrew M. Bishop
Wed, 28 Jun 2006 22:30:15 -0700

Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > > > Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > > They are the data from one POST request. Seems that wwwoffle buffers 
> > > > > them
> > > > > somehow and doesn't send them imediately to the client.
> 
> > Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > This is what seems not to be completely true. I've noticed the same
> > > behaviour yesterday, with different application (albums at
> > > http://digi.perseus.sk/) - without wwwoffle pictures load smoother.
> > > 
> > > There may be some buffering at input or ourput at wwwoffle or socket 
> > > level,
> > > which causes delays. Could you please check it?
> 
> On 18.05.06 19:08, Andrew M. Bishop wrote:
> > I don't know what version of WWWOFFLE you are using, but there are two
> > possible sources of buffering.
> > 
> > If you have enabled chunked encoding from WWWOFFLE to the client (the
> > reply-chunked-data=yes in the Options section) then there is some
> > buffering.  The minimum buffering is 1 kBytes, if the data packet is
> > bigger than this then it gets sent with no buffering, smaller packets
> > are grouped together.  This is because the action of using chunked
> > encoding adds extra information to the data stream.  If small blocks
> > of data are sent on their own then more data needs to be sent in
> > total.  You can try turning this option off and see if it helps.  The
> > compression option (reply-compressed-data) will also add buffering,
> > but I don't know how much, it is determined by the compressor (zlib),
> > not by me.
> 
> Yes, that's it!
> when I turned off reply-chunked-data, the page worked as expected.
> I have reply-compressed-data turned off (I run wwwoffle on local machine).
> However this way I will have to turned that off for all sites, since this is
> global option.
> 
> Do you see any possibility to have the option reply-compressed-data per-site
> configurable?

This option only applies between the browser and WWWOFFLE.  It doesn't
make sense that it should be applied to one site and not another.  The
chunked/no-chunked decision is made for each individual connection,
from browser to proxy or from proxy to server, not for the overall
link.

I don't really understand the problems that you are having or why this
option should help you.  If it helps then turn it off.

-- 
Andrew.
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