[sldev] https very slow.

[Laurent Laborde]

On 7/11/07, Gary Wardell <gwardell at gwsystems.co.il> wrote:
> > On 7/11/07 12:53 AM, Laurent Laborde wrote:
> > > 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 ?
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> >From a provider's stand point, only pages/requests that need to be encrypted should be encrypted.  Pages/requests that don't have
> sensitive information on them shouldn't be, as encrypting those places significant unnecessary load on the server.
>
> Hosts, such as financial institutions, that require a high number of pages to be encrypted use SSL accelerators on the front end
> to off-load the encryption form their servers.
>
> This (SSL accelerators) might be something to consider for in world transactions, but I doubt it's needed for jira or wiki logons,
> but I don't have access to the numbers to be sure.  However, I don't see why SSL would be needed for jira and wiki content.

I only use http wiki, but sometime i follow a link which is https.
And there is no "http version" of the public jira.

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Kerunix Flan