A look at the page-delivery effects of data compression in HTTP 1.1
HTTP compression, a recommendation of the HTTP 1.1 protocol specification for improved page download time, requires a compression feature implemented at the Web server and a decompression feature implemented at the browser. While popular browsers were able to receive the compressed data as early as three years ago, Web servers were not ready to deliver compressed content. The situation is changing, though, as server compression modules are introduced. Dr. S. Radhakrishnan dissects Web compression, examines the benefits of HTTP compression, offers several compression tools, and highlights the effectiveness of the technology in a case study.
HTTP Compression for Web Applications
Considering the fact that most of the content in a page is textual data, HTTP compression is a promising scheme to improve the response time. Compression algorithms are effective with text data and can achieve 70-80% compression. In this article, I intend to provide some insight into how Internet Information Services* 6.0 compression improves the overall performance while answering questions on impact to:
HTTP Compression Speeds up the Web
The volume on the Web is forecasted to more than triple over the next three years and the category expecting the fastest growth is Data. Data and Content will remain the largest percentage of Web traffic and the majority of this information is dynamic so it does not lend itself to conventional caching technologies.
The Solution is DataCompression and the idea is to compress data being sent out from your Web server, and have the browser decompress this data on the fly, thus reducing the amount of data sent and increasing the page display speed.
HTTP for HTML Authors, Part I
In this tutorial, you'll learn the basics about how to publish a document on the Web, and how your readers can access it. This is all accomplished through something called HTTP, the HyperText Transfer Protocol.
HTTP for HTML Authors, Part II
In this tutorial, we'll take a look at a few of the more important headers used by both browsers and servers, and how you can use them to make your Web sites more efficient and functional.
HTTP for HTML Authors, Part III
In this, the third and final part of our series on HTTP, we will examine two of the most important functions of HTTP that HTML authors will be interested in: redirecting and form submission.
HTTP Made Really Easy
This tutorial explains the simple, English-based structure of HTTP communication, and teaches you the practical details of writing HTTP clients and servers. It assumes you know basic socket programming.
parts of an http transaction - the request
A look at HTTP, the underlying mechanism on which CGI operates, and which directly determines what you can and cannot send or receive via CGI.
Powering the Web with HTTP
In developing Web applications, as in life, it is important to understand the basics. With that thought, let’s cover one of the most basic components of the Web: the hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP.
Understanding HTTP
An introduction to the HTTP protocol used for the exchange of www documents. It covers the essential knowledge needed for people wanted engage on web client programming.
Files
