On Mar 1, 2011, at 12:46 AM, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 03:30:08PM +0800, Delta Yeh wrote: >> Hi Willy, >> >> Do you have any plan to add http compress feature into haproxy ? > > Yes, we'll probably implement it here at Exceliance once we're done > with SSL. The internal reworks needed to address SSL are the same as > compression. For a long time I've been against compression because > of the added latency that freezes the whole process while compressing > a buffer. With nowadays processors, compressing a 16kB buffer should > take less than a millisecond and will not slow the whole process down > too much. Also, the internal scheduler supports priorities so we can > lower the one of the compressing tasks. > >> And what is the status of SSL feature? I read a post >> on the status of SSL , in 2009 ? or maybe early 2010. > > The devs should start here in a few months and take several months.
Thanks for all the details Willy, glad to hear things are easing up for you. :) -Joe Name: Joseph A. Williams Email: [email protected] Blog: http://www.joeandmotorboat.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/williamsjoe
