On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Brian Lamar <brian.la...@rackspace.com> wrote: > Part of the API specification says that the OpenStack API supports gzip > compression in requests and responses. I have an extremely simple WSGI > middleware implementation of this finished, but it does not support streaming > which could potentially be non-performant for large responses. > > Keep in mind this is middleware and could be added/removed easily. > > My initial thought is to not attempt to include this type of middleware in > OpenStack because gzip compression is best handled by a proxy system such as > Nginx/Apache/etc.
This is precisely the conclusion we came to in Glance. Let Squid or Varnish handle caching, compression, etc, and let Glance focus on registering image data. My 2 cents, -jay _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
