Not a GSoC project, just a project(crcsync is the name at the moment). Initial target is a double proxy server, one each end of the slow link, with dreams of web standards and browser integration following.<br><br>Seems to me that both projects need the same upstream server extension to be able to send the deltas down. Current state of the apache modules is that all the major pieces are in place but not a lot testing and no optimisation has been carried out yet.<br>
<br>Toby<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/3/26 Gervase Markham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gerv@mozilla.org">gerv@mozilla.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On 23/03/09 11:19, Martin Langhoff wrote:<br>
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Fantastic! I assume the rsync-http now know of the vastly superior<br>
karma of crcsync over the 2-hash method of rsync.<br>
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Er, not really. After a lunchtime conversation with tridge at LCA where he told me about his original project, I just thought it would be cool and put it up on our SoC list. So I know very little about what's possible.<div class="im">
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If the Apache mods<br>
and Mozilla speak the same protocol, then machines behind<br>
bandwidth-constrained links will be in much better shape. I can see<br>
3G-internet providers pushing this too.<br>
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Clearly, it's worth making sure everyone's on the same page. I see this as a killer app for Firefox on low-bandwidth links; we'll have every smalltown and developing world ISP which still has dial-up customers telling their customers "use Firefox to make your Internet faster". They'd install the compression server on their web proxy, and voila.<br>
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Have I understood correctly? Is Martin coordinating a GSoC project to do an apache extension for delta-compression-over-HTTP?<br>
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Gerv<br>
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