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Tuesday February 05, 2008 Using HTTP compression to speed up content delivery in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 update 2
Using HTTP compression to speed up content delivery in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 update 2
If you are looking for faster web page downloads, you can use HTTP compression feature which compresses your content to speed it up. It is especially beneficial for low bandwidth connections. This also reduces the number of bytes transferred and improves the overall server performance.
How it Works
Browsers that support compressed content send an Accept-encoding header with value gzip, deflate. Our Web Server sees the header and chooses to provide compressed content, and sends Content-encoding: gzip response header. The browser on seeing this header tries to decompress the content and renders it.Now the question is how to enable HTTP compression feature can be configured in obj.conf. Let me explain that in detail in this blog.
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