Comment on Tell HN: GZIP for Hacker NewsComments−stevenp15yWow. Why on Earth is HN not already being served gzipped? The performance difference is drastic.−mhusbyOP15yI am not sure on the details, but it has something to do with the server that they are running. Whatever the server is it doesn't do gzip or ssl, but the proxy does both :-)−rick_204715yThe server itself is written in arc and as is news.arc, the server was written to "just work".
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Wow. Why on Earth is HN not already being served gzipped? The performance difference is drastic.
I am not sure on the details, but it has something to do with the server that they are running. Whatever the server is it doesn't do gzip or ssl, but the proxy does both :-)
The server itself is written in arc and as is news.arc, the server was written to "just work".