Re: Input and Output data traffic

On 13/05/11 18:33, Israel Ben Guilherme Fonseca wrote:
> Well I finally figure it out (or somewhat).
>
> The "problem" is indeed the 'sslmode' parameter of the psycopg2 connection.
>
> If omitted, I think that's the default value is 'prefer' (enable ssl if
> the server support). With that I got the very low value of 29014KB for
> traffic.
>
> When i explicitly set it to 'disable', I got almost the same result of
> java 221222KB.
>
> So here's the question, does the SSL also compress the traffic data? I
> enabled the self-signed certificate mode in the Java test and got the
> same result.

Absolutely yes. Compression is considered a standard part of every
modern encription algorithm.

federico

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