From: Martin Feeney (martin at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Wed 01 Aug 2001 - 11:58:49 IST
On Wed, 01 Aug 2001 11:52:10 Paul McCourt wrote:
> Its not so much the key exchange or the actual overhead on the
> servers/browser, but the increase in the amount of data transported,
> somebody said 5% but it sounds like they plucked the figure out of their
> arse.
Well, the other thing that may have to be taken into account is the
connection between server and client. It there's a slow-ish link somewhere
along the route that uses ppp compression (e.g. client dial-up), it's not
going to do so well on encrypted text/html versus plain text/html. Of
course if your original data doesn't compress very well or you're not
providing data to modem-burdened users then ignore this entirely.
M.
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