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HTTPS = more overhead than HTTP, so this is going to increase network traffic everywhere that uses Google that has people logged in for Gmail, which is just abo
by afdssfda 15y ago
HTTPS = more overhead than HTTP, so this is going to increase network traffic everywhere that uses Google that has people logged in for Gmail, which is just about everywhere to some extent. It will be minor, but could still have a detrimental effect.
- ceejayoz 15y agoUnencrypted HTTP has its own detrimental effects.
- metageek 15y ago>HTTPS = more overhead than HTTP Is that true? Most encryption schemes include compression (since compression removes redundancy, and redundancy is where cryptanalysts attack).
- tonfa 15y agoAnd I guess if you use chrome(ium), you're already using an encrypted channel with SPDY anyway.
- afdssfda 15y agoSSL handshaking causes more traffic. It may be compressed, but small pages like the Google main search page (the heaviest hit) may show an increase in traffic, even after compression is factored in. Here's one place where HTTP vs HTTPS is discussed, and a few quotes: "Servers that are heavy on serving a fairly small set of static pages that can easily be cached in memory suffer from a much higher overhead... SSL handshaking is the major cost of HTTPS." http://stackoverflow.com/questions/149274/http-vs-https-performance http://stackoverflow.com/questions/149274/http-vs-https-perf...