[Laszlo-dev] application/lfc file size

[P T Withington]

I thought the firebug Net tab gave numbers. Also, Safari's Activity  
window and it's nifty new developer console have lots of info... Don't  
know if you've already explored those?

On Sep 3, 2008, at 4:33 PM, Donald Anderson <dda at ddanderson.com> wrote:

> Here's the reason I found curl unsatisfying when gathering stats  
> last week:
>
> curl 'http://127.0.0.1:8080/trunk-a/demos/lzpix/app.lzx?lzr=swf8&lzt=html'
>
> Wow, only 2492 bytes.  Hmmm....
> It does not get:
>   <script type="text/javascript" src="/trunk-a/lps/includes/embed- 
> compressed.js"></script><style type="text/css">
>
> or:
>   lz.embed.swf({url: 'app.lzx?lzt=swf&lzr=swf8', bgcolor: '#cfcfcf',  
> width: '800', height: '600', id: 'lzapp', accessible: 'false'});
>
> I can certainly either parse these out and get the next level or  
> hardcode what to get in a script.
> I'll start with hardcoding the commands to get some numbers.  This  
> could be put into into a build script,
> with the proviso that it might be a little fragile if things move  
> around.
> Also, this approach has problem retrieving deeper referenced content  
> (e.g. pictures
> loaded programmatically).
>
> I notice my machine (OSX) has curl, but does not have wget (at least  
> by default).
> My linux box has both, Windows cmd has neither and Windows/cygwin  
> has both.  So I'll go with curl.
>
> As for using firebug, I looked again under the header statistics  
> (for a big DHTML file -  LFCdhtml.js) and it only shows
> Content-Length, nothing about a compressed length.  Max, let me know  
> if I'm missing something...
>
> If we needed/wanted the complete picture of the download, we could:
>   1) have a tiny proxy server that proxies to the laszlo tomcat  
> server and monitors/reports the actual byte counts.
>   2) rig up the build script to run firefox (like lzunit does) and  
> hit the proxy server with the rest of the url.
>  might take a day or so to do this.
>
> I'm going to start with the hardcoded scripts to grab just the  
> larger files (app and runtime).
>
> - Don
>
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>
> Don Anderson
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>
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