> I would like to use Jabber as middleware but I'm concerned about the size of > XML. There are a lot of XML compressors available, but they all seem to work > on files and/or big chunks of data, but Jabber streams fairly small messages. > So, my question how would you reduce Jabber's bandwidth without eliminating > XML?
There's been plenty of discussion on this in path, see: http://mailman.jabber.org/pipermail/jdev/2002-January/thread.html (it seems the threading got a bit broken - search for "GZipping Jabber Messages"). The outcome of this discussion seems to be that yes, you can compress the stream, but the gains (less bandwidth usage) don't necessarily justify the costs (higher memory and CPU usage, and more complex implementations). Having said that, its worth noting that more and more servers and clients are using SSL, which compresses data (and you get encryption for free). Rob. -- Robert Norris GPG: 1024D/FC18E6C2 Email+Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://cataclysm.cx/
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