In this post we’ll show an example on how to implement transfer rate limitation in Nginx. As this limitation is User agent based, itwould be especially meaningful for a download site, or a mirror site like mirror.centos.org.
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Nginx: UserAgent based transfer rate limit
January 28th, 2010Install Lighttpd PHP and XCache from Source on Linux
September 11th, 2009This is a short description on how to install a robust LAMP web service environment. Here we will not choose Apache, but Lighttpd instead.
Firstly, let’s make two directories, one for source code compiling, and the other one is the installation path. » Read more: Install Lighttpd PHP and XCache from Source on Linux
Compiling eAccelerator from source code
September 8th, 2009This is a quick guide for installing eAccelerator in a PHP environment. eAccelerator is well-known PHP memory management plug-in, it’s used to optimize execution of PHP codes. » Read more: Compiling eAccelerator from source code
Details about TCP_MISS/000 in Squid access.log
September 8th, 2009I noticed some TCP_MISS/000 entries in Squid access_log this afternoon, as what I saw 3 years ago.
As we know that TCP_MISS means the URL has no stored objects in cache, and TCP_MISS/000 is the bit usually means aborted, indicating there’s no reply to the request before the client aborted the connection. » Read more: Details about TCP_MISS/000 in Squid access.log
Roundup on Browser Parallel Connections
September 8th, 2009A lot of blogging and follow-up discussion ensued with the announcement that IE8 supports six connections per host. The blogs I saw:
- IE8: The Performance Implications
- IE8 speeds things up
- IE8: 6 Connections Per Host
- IE 8 and Performance
- Testing IE8.s Connection Parallelism
- IE 8 Connection Parallelism Issues
It’s likely that Firefox 3 will support 6 connections per server in an upcoming beta release, which means more discussion is expected. » Read more: Roundup on Browser Parallel Connections
How to Implement P3P HTTP Headers for cross-site cookies
September 8th, 2009Why I need to make sure to implement P3P if using iframes or using cross-site cookies?
The point is that if your application is inside iframe with parent belongs to another domain – cookies will not work for some very common configurations, for example IE 6/7 with privacy set to medium. If cookies don’t work – session won’t work. Therefore session turns out useless for your application under Internet Explorer. checck “Privacy in IE 6” for more details. » Read more: How to Implement P3P HTTP Headers for cross-site cookies