[racket] Apache improvements

From: Jon Rafkind (rafkind at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 23 00:59:09 EDT 2011

Also these improvements were a direct result of running yslow on the
racket website. Thanks yahoo!

http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

On 03/22/2011 07:43 PM, Eli Barzilay wrote:
> I've recently enabled gzip compression on most of the
> *.racket-lang.org pages, and so far there are no problems.
>
> Another thing that I was considering is adding expiration, but I'm not
> sure if there's a best way to do this, and what value to use.  It
> looks like a good feature to have to speed up searches on
> docs.racket-lang.org.
>
> Does anyone know whether it's worth it?  I've seen some texts that
> say that this should be done to "enable caching", but IIUC that only
> saves a HEAD ping for the file so maybe the benefits are not important
> enough?  Also, it's not clear to me how to do it (it's an apache
> setup) and what's a value that would be fine.
>
> I'll be happy if anyone can help with that.  (Please reply directly.)
>



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