Aleks, Am 14.02.19 um 12:00 schrieb Aleksandar Lazic: >> I am successfully able access brotli compressed URLs with Google Chrome, >> this requires me to disable `gzip` though (because haproxy prefers to >> select gzip, I suspect because `br` is last in Chrome's `Accept-Encoding` >> header). > > Does it change it when you use `br` as frist entry in `compression algo ... ` > > https://cbonte.github.io/haproxy-dconv/1.9/configuration.html#4.2-compression%20algo
I tried that. It does not. In the absence of a q-value for the encoding HAProxy select the first value listed in the Accept-Encoding header. I just checked RFC 7231#section-5.3.4 which does not specify a priority in this case. Maybe the code should be changed to use order of the algorithms in the config to determine the priority when the client gives equal priorities. >> I also am able to sucessfully download and decompress URLs with `curl` >> and the `brotli` CLI utility. The server I use as the backend for these >> tests has about 45ms RTT to my machine. The HTML page I use is some random >> HTML page on the server, the noise file is 1 MiB of finest /dev/urandom. >> >> You'll notice that brotli compressed requests are both faster as well as >> smaller compared to gzip with the hardcoded brotli compression quality >> of 3. The default is 11, which is *way* slower than gzip. > > How much more/less/equal CPU usage have brotli compared to gzip? I did not check, because I would have to build something more elaborate than "look at curl's output" for that. Also I have no idea how I would do so. I'll leave this up to the experts :-) > I'm a little bit disappointed from the size point of view, it is only ~6K less > then gzip, is it worth the amount of work for such a small gain of data > reduction. Even 6kB add up over time. Especially on cellular networks. Also I did not tune all the brotli encoder knobs yet. As an example one could specify that the contents is UTF-8 encoded text which possibly improves compression rate further (I guess it selects a different dictionary): https://github.com/google/brotli/blob/5805f99a533a8f8118699c0100d8c102f3605f65/docs/encode.h.3#L197-L204 Best regards Tim Düsterhus
