[Cialug] decreasing website latency

[Kenneth Younger]

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 8:40 AM, Paul Gray <gray at cs.uni.edu> wrote:
>
>> On 11/04/2010 08:20 AM, Josh More wrote:
>> > I do not believe that wget is a good tool for testing SSL, as it will
>> > have to negotiate the keys every time it runs.  A browser should do it
>> > on the first hit and then store them for future hits so the entire
>> > session is reasonable.
>> >
>>
>> True, but you can use wget's "--no-check-certificate" option to bypass the
>> majority of the check.
>>
>
> Ah, thanks guys. I used "track resources" in Chrome and the latency is only
> 100ms. Using --no-check-certificate did speed up wget but put it at .379.
>
> Hmm... actually, now that I think about it, the use case for this site is
> as a web service. Testing in Chrome isn't really that important. I did test
> with curl and got similar results to wget --no-check-certificate.
>
> I can live with it, but am happy to hear any other tips. Because it's a web
> service I don't know if caching will help much.
>
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Can you throw Nginx or some other proxy in front to handle the SSL and then
just pass the request back to apache?

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