: Yeah. I'm just not sure how much benefit in terms of data transfer this : will save. Has anyone tested this to see if this is even worth it?
one mans trash is another mans treasure ... if you're replicating snapshoots very frequently within a single datacenter speed is critical and bandwidth is free -- if you're replicating once a day from one data center to another over a very expensive, very small, pipe spending some time+cpu to compress may be worth it. either way: it should be almost trivial to implement if people wnat to supply a patch, and with a simple new requestDispatcher config option, easy to disable completeley on the server for people who might have clients sending "Accept-Encodig: gzip" willy nilly -Hoss
