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Friday June 09, 2006 Dynamic compression of static files in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0
Dynamic compression of static files in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0
Check out the new cool features in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Technology Preview which can be downloaded for free from here.
In this blog I will talk about dynamic compression of static files.
We have also implemented caching of compressed data
for static files. We have added a new service function "compress-file" which will
compress static files (if the compressed file doesn't exist) and serves
it from the cache if the compressed version already exists.
Lets say if I want to create .gz files on the fly for static files, all I have to do is to modify obj.conf as shown below. Use it with find-compressed SAF. Add it before send-file function.
Note that subdir is a directory name only relative to the
directory in which the original
non-compressed file is located. "." means use the
same directory as the original file to create compressed files.
Parameters this new "compress-file" SAF takes are subdir, check-age(true), vary(true), compression-level(6), min-size(256), max-size(1048576).
Let me take an example, if we have a static file in the docroot static1.txt.
We can verify that the Web Server creates a .gz file in .compressed-files subdirectory.
Also note that the content length on access file is the same as the .gz file in the .compressed-files directory.
Lets say if I want to create .gz files on the fly for static files, all I have to do is to modify obj.conf as shown below. Use it with find-compressed SAF. Add it before send-file function.
| <Object
name="default"> ... NameTrans fn="assign-name" from="*.html" name="find-compressed" ... Service method=(GET|HEAD|POST) type=*~magnus-internal/* fn=compress-file subdir=".compressed-files" Service method=(GET|HEAD|POST) type=*~magnus-internal/* fn=send-file ... </Object> <Object name="find-compressed"> PathCheck fn="find-compressed" </Object> |
Parameters this new "compress-file" SAF takes are subdir, check-age(true), vary(true), compression-level(6), min-size(256), max-size(1048576).
Let me take an example, if we have a static file in the docroot static1.txt.
#
ls -al
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1386 Aug 1 21:16 static1.txt
Send a GET request with Accept-Encoding: gzip header,
it returns the compressed content,-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 1386 Aug 1 21:16 static1.txt
#
telnet 0 2701
Trying 0.0.0.0...
Connected to 0.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /static1.txt HTTP/1.0
Accept-Encoding: gzip
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Sun-Java-System-Web-Server/7
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:47:11 GMT
Content-length: 892
Content-type: text/plain
Vary: accept-encoding
Content-encoding: x-gzip
Last-modified: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:47:11 GMT
Accept-ranges: bytes
Connection: close
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Trying 0.0.0.0...
Connected to 0.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /static1.txt HTTP/1.0
Accept-Encoding: gzip
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: Sun-Java-System-Web-Server/7
Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:47:11 GMT
Content-length: 892
Content-type: text/plain
Vary: accept-encoding
Content-encoding: x-gzip
Last-modified: Mon, 01 Aug 2005 15:47:11 GMT
Accept-ranges: bytes
Connection: close
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We can verify that the Web Server creates a .gz file in .compressed-files subdirectory.
# ls -la
drwxr-xr-x 2 webservd webservd 512 Aug 1 21:17 .compressed-files
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1386 Aug 1 21:16 static1.txt
# ls -l .compressed-files/
total 2
-rw------- 1 webservd webservd 892 Aug 1 21:17 static1.txt.gz
drwxr-xr-x 2 webservd webservd 512 Aug 1 21:17 .compressed-files
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1386 Aug 1 21:16 static1.txt
# ls -l .compressed-files/
total 2
-rw------- 1 webservd webservd 892 Aug 1 21:17 static1.txt.gz
Also note that the content length on access file is the same as the .gz file in the .compressed-files directory.
#
tail ../logs/access
format=%Ses->client.ip% - %Req->vars.auth-user% [%SYSDATE%] "%Req->reqpb.clf-request%" %Req->srvhdrs.clf-status% %Req->srvhdrs.content-length%
abc.def.com - - [01/Aug/2005:21:17:11 +0530] "GET /static1.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 892
...
format=%Ses->client.ip% - %Req->vars.auth-user% [%SYSDATE%] "%Req->reqpb.clf-request%" %Req->srvhdrs.clf-status% %Req->srvhdrs.content-length%
abc.def.com - - [01/Aug/2005:21:17:11 +0530] "GET /static1.txt HTTP/1.0" 200 892
...