Another question on the issue of slow (modem) connections and having a
lightweight front-end to the mod_perl servers...
A slow modem connection would typically exist between a client computer and
an ISP; the ISP would have a fast network connection to the Internet. Are
there any ISPs that do significant buffering of webserver responses for
their slow clients? If so, wouldn't this reduce the advantage of doing the
buffering within a server-side lightweight front-end to mod_perl? How often
should I expect this behavior from ISPs?
If ISPs don't do this kind of buffering, why not?
Thanks,
--Jonathan Marshall
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On Mon, 18 Oct 1999, Stas Bekman wrote:
> Idealy, one of the big advantages proxy provides for mod_perl is downsteam
> buffering. What happens is that mod_perl immediately generates the output,
> hadles it to proxy to return to a slow user, which immediately allows to
> close a connection. So the first question is how big your proxy buffer,
> since if mod_perl cannot send it all to proxy it doesn't really helps.
> Stas Bekman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.singlesheaven.com/stas
