[Lazarus] FCL-web and bandwidth usage

[michael.vancanneyt at wisa.be]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012, Andrew Brunner wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:13 AM, Graeme Geldenhuys <graemeg.lists at gmail.com>
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> So has anybody done some bandwidth breakdowns of there FCL-web based
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>> websites or web applications? How do you fare?
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> I have an entire cloud platform developed in FPC/Lazarus and studied my
> framework and the impact code size has to do with low-bandwidth.  Latency
> was dramatically reduced by two ways.  The single largest impact was the
> use of the deflate compression methods for all calls via core objects.
> Deflate adds a compression layer on top of the http packet.  So
> contentlength is reduced , inflated and then processed by the client or
> server.
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> The second is javascript development.  You should make sure you can re-use
> code wherever possible..
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> The core system in my platform is similar to fpweb but my sockets implement
> is a custom engine I've developed over the course of 14 years.  But knowing
> how fpweb is handling requests adding a Deflate option for
> requests/responsces would be simple and highly beneficial to all parties
> using fpWeb.

Indeed. 
All it takes is to implement it in SendResponse.

Michael.