From: Jeff Squyres \(jsquyres\) (jsquyres_at_[hidden])
Date: 2006-06-29 12:46:49


> -----Original Message-----
> From: mtt-users-bounces_at_[hidden]
> [mailto:mtt-users-bounces_at_[hidden]] On Behalf Of Andrew Friedley
> Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:36 AM
> To: General user list for the MPI Testing Tool
> Subject: Re: [MTT users] Revised server-side processing for MTT
>
> This was pretty much the original plan for the server side.. don't
> remember why we didn't do it.. complications maybe? I seem
> to remember Brian hating all over it too :)

I don't remember Brian's reasons for hating it, either. Brian -- you're
still on this list, do you remember/care?

> One thing that might be useful is that apache often does
> compression of
> outgoing web pages on the fly at the browser's request (in
> fact I think
> browsers request this by default nowadays? not sure). I imagine the
> perl LWP stuff supports this on the fly as well. If this
> works for HTTP
> POST, would make things a lot easier. Though it also means apache is
> doing compression work.

Good point; something to look into.

-- 
Jeff Squyres
Server Virtualization Business Unit
Cisco Systems