- From: Jeffrey Mogul <Jeff.Mogul@hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 06 May 2003 17:07:16 -0700
- To: David Morris <dwm@xpasc.com>
- Cc: <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Dave Morris writes:
And how much would compression reduce the data transfered? Not
mutually exclusive, I know, but a solution to the issue you
describe would be quite complex to implement, compression would be
pretty straight forward and I suspect reduce bytes transfered by
more than the 36% redundancy.
Good question. We couldn't answer it directly, because our
traces don't include the actual contents, and so we couldn't
compress the data to see what would happen with compression.
However, indirect evidence suggests that adding HTTP-level
compression wouldn't change the results very much, because
most of the bytes (and especially most of the redundant bytes)
were in image formats that are already compressed.
Your trace may vary ...
-Jeff
Received on Tuesday, 6 May 2003 20:07:18 UTC