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Re: A reminder we should think about congestion control at some point


Tim Bray wrote:
http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/16/29OPconnection_1.html? source=rss&url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/04/07/16/ 29OPconnection_1.html

I'm not sure this is *really* a problem, in that we might decide that
existing HTTP caching & traffic management techniques will suffice
for Atom.  But we should be conscious of it. -Tim


I've been studying the HTTP caching mechanism and I'm really amazed by
the performance improvement. I guess gzip compression is something that
too few people are using. I host about a dozen of scrapped feeds for
personal use (but I share them with various friends), and recently I
noticed they were eating about 300mb of my bandwidth. I've since then
started using cgi_buffer (a Python library that encapsulates all HTTP
caching techniques plus gzip compression) to generate those feeds, and
the bandwidth use reduced drastically.

So I think the solution already exists. But not everyone is aware of it.
Perhaps it would be ideal to have a separate document, some sort of
guidelines, with detailed documentation (and preferrably friendly,
easy-to-read documentation) on how to implement these methods.

Since I've been already dedicating a considerable amount of my time to
that subject (it's important to my current work), I'd gladly volunteer
to write a draft about it with the best of my non-native English. But I
have the feeling that that document (a friendly, easy-to-read,
syndication-specific, HTTP caching tutorial) already exists somewhere...



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