Posts Tagged ‘compression solutions’

Baseline Testing With cURL

In: Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org

3 Oct 2006

cURL is an application that can be used to retrieve any Internet file that uses the standard URL format — http://, ftp://, gopher://, etc. Its power and flexibility can be added to applications by using the libcurl library, whose API can be accessed easily using most of the commonly used scripting and programming languages.
So, how [...]

Compressing Web Output Using mod_deflate and Apache 2.0.x

In: Web Performance| WebPerformance.Org

3 Oct 2006

In a previous paper, the use of mod_gzip to dynamically compress the output from an Apache server. With the growing use of the Apache 2.0.x family of Web servers, the question arises of how to perform a similar GZIP-encoding function within this server. The developers of the Apache 2.0.x servers have included a module in [...]

XCache Technologies: Still Kicking in the Pacific Northwest

In: smp

21 Apr 2005

Wayne Berry and the crew at XCache Technologies is still kicking, with their interesting mix of software and hardware HTTP compression solutions.
The software is designed for IIS/ISA, while the hardware is a front-end for Web servers.
I had a chance to meet Wayne a few years ago, and was impressed by his dedication to Web performance. [...]


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