On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 12:01:58PM +0000, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> > 2) I did notice that the index page is about 10k larger between 1.0.3 and
> > 2.1.1.  This page is not compressed so it takes noticeable time to load
> > on a dial-up.  On a screen with 23 messages, netstat recorded about 46k
> > with 2.1.1.  It probably would be nice if this is compressed as well.
> > The folders screen is another page that would benefit a lot from
> > compression.
> 
> That's an easy one. 
> 
> The tricky part is to use gzip only on those screens that need it.  
> Otherwise the overhead in starting gzip is not going to be worth it. 
> 
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  Great!  The traffic on folder.html went down to less than 4k - less than
1/10th of the original size!  All the actions I just tried completed in
under 2 seconds (from the time I click on the mouse button and the time
everything finishes loading).  Thanks!

  Tim

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