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Posted by Toby Inkster on 11/14/06 19:05
CptDondo wrote:
> I am working on a project where a 'client' periodically queries a number
> of 'servers'. The exchanges are done using XML.
>
> There is one client and an awful lot of servers (hundreds), and
> bandwidth is limited. It can take hours for the client to query all of
> the servers in round-robin fashion.
XML is fairly bulky. Have you thought of compressing the entire exchange
with gzip? Ought to reduce bandwidth by about 60% or so.
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