Re: HTTP Header Compaction Results

On Mon, 22 Oct 2012 18:36:40 +0200, Vinayak Hegde <vinayakh@gmail.com>  
wrote:

>>
>> We are wondering whether anyone is aware of a test corpus for HTTP  
>> exchanges that would be available, or could be made available. This  
>> would help us obtaining fair and realistic results.
>
> The internet archive stores the HTTP response as it is received and
> has a huge trove of results. However I don't know if it is available
> for download and replay. The arc file format is documented here -
> http://crawler.archive.org/articles/developer_manual/arcs.html
>

As discussed previously, the headers in the HTTP request may be more  
relevant to compress, since you want to fit as many requests as possible  
in the initial TCP window. In the response the headers are many times  
dwarfed by the size of the actual resource. Getting a representative  
sample for test purposes quickly gets difficult for privacy reasons, in  
particular if you capture mobile traffic, where unique identifiers like  
phone number could be added to the requests by the network operator.

/Martin Nilsson

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Received on Tuesday, 23 October 2012 07:55:11 UTC