[sldev] https very slow.

[Matthew Dowd]

May not be routing. It could be some hiccup or timeout doing the certificate chain validation and/or attempting to retrieve certificate revocation lists.

https is always slower than http due to the overhead of setting up the encryption each request: quite a lot of sites which don't dealing with confidential information (so for instance wikis, message boards, etc.) use https just for the authentication step (to protect username and password) and/or signup process but then drop to http. The difference between https and http is particularly noticeable if you are doing a lot of small requests in quick succession (each involving setting up and taking down the encryption stack), so even https enabling websites may use http for static images (especially if they have a lot of small icons).

Another solution is to use http pipeling (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_pipelining) so that you only set up the encrytion stack once and send all the requests and responses over the same connection - does the SL caps stuff use this?

Matthew




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> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:53:14 +0200
> From: kerdezixe at gmail.com
> To: sldev at lists.secondlife.com
> Subject: [sldev] https very slow.
> 
> Hi again !
> Some of us are complaining about *really* slow jira while some other
> one say it's "not that bad".
> 
> I noticed that  https://wiki.secondlife.com/ is insanly slower
> (unuseable) than http://wiki.secondlife.com/
> (http vs https)
> 
> Is it possible that, somewhere in the nested network, http and https
> and not routed in the same way and https may be superslow for some
> location in the world ?
> 
> Since the jira is all https, that could explain why some people see
> the jira much slower than some other ppl.
> 
> also, we noticed a long time ago (it's not hapenning anymore) that
> european sometime lose the capability while, in the SAME SIM, the US
> folk still have the caps. and if i remember correctly the caps are
> https.
> It happened more frequently when the sim was hosted in the texas coloc.
> 
> -- 
> kerunix Flan
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