[sldev] https very slow.

[Rob Lanphier]

There are a lot of issues being conflated in this thread.

If anyone is still interested in the performance of wiki.secondlife.com,
the best place to discuss that is here:
https://jira.secondlife.com/browse/WEB-223

Further discussion of http vs. https on this mailing list needs to be
specific (in the subject line of the message) about which system
component we're talking about here:

*  jira.secondlife.com
*  wiki.secondlife.com
*  some specific piece of Second Life core infrastructure

....and probably taken off list to jira or wiki soon. 

With respect to running https on jira and wiki, we've tried to avoid
overusing https, but web applications tend to force you to use one or
the other for everything for all of the cookies/session management to
work properly.  Some of our early JIRA login issues were caused in part
by us trying to overoptimize on this very problem.

As to why we use https in other parts of the infrastructure, I'll leave
that to others here at Linden Lab.

More benchmarking of https in general is welcome here:
https://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/HTTPS

Note, it's a blank page right now, but it doesn't have to stay that way.

Rob

On 7/11/07 10:38 AM, Nicholaz Beresford wrote:
>
> Gary Wardell wrote:
>> So, given that one can do monetary transaction through the viewer, it
>> may need encryption.  However, if the transactions are
>> actually done on the server, and no sensitive information is in the
>> viewer, ...
>>
>> That being said, encryption would be superfluous for non-monetary
>> transactions.
>>
>> Also, it is more than a few cpu cycles.  Actually it can be
>> significant.  It also balloons the size of the payload so it requires
>> more bandwidth.
>
> I'm sure it's more than that (these were up to a few hundred
> per minute as far as I remember).
>
> It may have something to do with securing copyright (like
> limiting the ability to intercept objects or textures through
> a proxy), but dunno really ... just remember that I was
> wondering about it at that time.
>
>
> Nick
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