Daniel L. Miller wrote: > Stefan de Konink wrote: >> Daniel L. Miller wrote: >>> The answers to these may be obvious - but since I'm asking they're >>> not obvious to me. >>> >>> 1. When entering multiple extensions in a handler, what is the >>> correct format? Is it: >>> <ext1>,<ext2>,<ext3> >> I use this one. > Thank you. Still think showing this in the admin interface would be > beneficial for noobs like me.
Yes, some hints could be nice; I would suggest you file a request for enhancement here: http://code.google.com/p/cherokee/issues/list >>> 2. "Encoding". Why are some of the default folders checked to allow >>> encoding and some not? Why would we NOT want to allow gzip and/or >>> deflate on nearly every folder? >> Because some folders could contain compressed files that will not get >> a better compression from gzip or deflate; cherokee is not yet able to >> detect if the compressed output is actually bigger than the file >> output and act based on it (and cache this information); it could take >> more server resources to compress them than we want; cherokee doesn't >> cache compressed output in iocache yet. > Is there a reason Cherokee doesn't include "deflate" by default where > "Gzip" is enabled? Unless we specifically know we'll be serving images > or compressed files, does it break anything to enable both encoders for > all rules (including php handlers)? I don't know; but both algorithms could probably be suited for a particular task or appliance :) Fastness vs Compression ratio. And because most browsers accept both, you must choose what you want to achieve. Stefan _______________________________________________ Cherokee mailing list [email protected] http://lists.octality.com/listinfo/cherokee
