[Laszlo-dev] application/lfc file size

[Donald Anderson]

I think my tomcat is not set up to do compression -
I'll install from nightly builds and try again.

On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Donald Anderson wrote:

> Well it looks like I'm never seeing compressed numbers, using curl  
> or firebug.
> Firebug does hav a header for Content-Length, I don't see anything  
> else that
> looks like a compressed length.  It always shows the size of the  
> file in the file system.
> For example, for LFChdml.js, I get:
>
>   Content-Length	345694
>
> and that's the size of the file.
>
> And same if I do curl:
>
> $ curl --compressed --dump-header curlheaders.tmp http://127.0.0.1:8080/trunk-a//lps/includes/lfc/LFCdhtml.js 
>  > /dev/null
>   % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time      
> Time  Current
>                                  Dload  Upload   Total   Spent     
> Left  Speed
> 100  337k  100  337k    0     0  51.8M      0 --:--:-- --:--:--  
> --:--:-- 80.3M
>
> 337k = 345694 within 1K.  (same result without --compressed)
> the curlheaders.tmp shows the same numbers in content length.
>
> What am I missing...?
>
> - Don
>
> On Sep 3, 2008, at 4:56 PM, P T Withington wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> Don Anderson
>>> Java/C/C++, Berkeley DB, systems consultant
>>>
>>> voice: 617-547-7881
>>> email: dda at ddanderson.com
>>> www: http://www.ddanderson.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>
>
> --
>
> Don Anderson
> Java/C/C++, Berkeley DB, systems consultant
>
> voice: 617-547-7881
> email: dda at ddanderson.com
> www: http://www.ddanderson.com
>
>
>


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Don Anderson
Java/C/C++, Berkeley DB, systems consultant

voice: 617-547-7881
email: dda at ddanderson.com
www: http://www.ddanderson.com



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