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Title: Efficiently compressing dynamically generated web content
Post by: MultiformeIngegno on December 6th, 2012, 06:28 PM

Seems a really interesting technique:
http://blog.cloudflare.com/efficiently-compressing-dynamically-generated-53805

Title: Re: Efficiently compressing dynamically generated web content
Post by: Nao on December 6th, 2012, 11:22 PM

Not usable in Wedge is it? ;)

Title: Re: Efficiently compressing dynamically generated web content
Post by: Arantor on December 6th, 2012, 11:25 PM

It's not really usable for most people except someone like Cloudflare that functions as a form of proxy.

I have to admit the concept of partial page caching on the client side is interesting, but I can see all sorts of potential for abuse. In our case, there's actually almost nothing that could meaningfully be cached though unless you're talking about caching individual posts and so on.

Title: Re: Efficiently compressing dynamically generated web content
Post by: MultiformeIngegno on December 6th, 2012, 11:56 PM

No no, of course it's not usable on Wedge (in fact I posted on Off Topic), I just wanted to share with you what seems a really interesting technique for big CDN/proxies. :)

Title: Re: Efficiently compressing dynamically generated web content
Post by: Arantor on December 7th, 2012, 12:24 AM

Except that as they even suggest, it's nothing new - and if it's anything else like their usual form, it'll be unreliable and/or cause spurious and mostly untraceable bugs.