Issue #3408 has been updated by Brice Figureau.

Ben - wrote:
> When the puppetmaster is used with nginx, or some other similar server, 
> compression can be easily configured and support should be added to the 
> puppet client to take advantage with used over WAN links.
> 
> I have had some experience with Juniper WAN optimizers and the stats for 
> compressing puppet comms are quite good and prompted me to request this 
> feature.
> 
> 25% compression of the puppet sessions is easily achieved by the Juniper 
> devices.

I wish it would be possible, unfortunately puppetd uses the stdlib Net::Http 
library (mostly to limit the client dependencies) which under ruby 1.8 is 
pretty limited. For instance it doesn't support compression (this is supported 
in ruby 1.9, though).

Although it might be possible to add support for compression easily with this 
lib:
http://griffin.oobleyboo.com/files/http_encoding_helper/http_encoding_helper.rb



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Feature #3408: Add compression support to puppet client
http://projects.reductivelabs.com/issues/3408

Author: Ben -
Status: Unreviewed
Priority: Normal
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Category: 
Target version: 
Affected version: 0.25.4
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When the puppetmaster is used with nginx, or some other similar server, 
compression can be easily configured and support should be added to the puppet 
client to take advantage with used over WAN links.

I have had some experience with Juniper WAN optimizers and the stats for 
compressing puppet comms are quite good and prompted me to request this feature.

25% compression of the puppet sessions is easily achieved by the Juniper 
devices.


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