[tbnl-devel] Re: New version 0.4.0

[Marc Battyani]

"Bob Hutchison" <hutch at recursive.ca> wrote:

>
> Actually, I wanted to mention that library to *you* Edi. What do you
> think about supporting gzip (and/or deflate) encoding? I was going to
> add it to TBNL -- the application I am working on used to be in Java
> and gzip encoding had an enormous (positive) impact on performance. If
> somebody else is already doing this then I won't worry about it.
>
> Marc, what happens with mod_lisp if an gzip encoded body is returned? I
> think you must just pass it along, but that part is written in C and,
> well, I'd rather ask than look for myself :-)

You can pass what you want to mod_lisp as long as you give the correct
content-length and headers. But If you use Apache you should better use
mod_gzip. I don't think it's a good idea to try to compete with Apache for a
production server. Even paserve and Areneida servers generally hide behind
Apache for real production use. It's just that they do it the wrong way with
mod_proxy rather than mod_lisp. ;-)

Marc