Tomcat Compression: compressableMimeType's for BO ?

server administration XI Server Discussion
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Has anyone tried setting compressableMimeType’s for deski or webi docs?
i.e. with the html and dhtml as well as with excel downloads.

This is in relation to Tomcat compression in the server.xml file:

compression=“on”
compressionMinSize=“2048000”
nocompressionUserAgents=“gozilla, traviata”
compressableMimeType=“text/html,text/xml,text/plain”

MikeD :south_africa: (BOB member since 2002-06-18)

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Mike, Have you had any luck with this?

markaregan (BOB member since 2007-01-09)

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Not sure - I typically activate it as a standard on all Tomcat servers but have not tried to measure the benefit.

MikeD :south_africa: (BOB member since 2002-06-18)

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Is it just a case of adding the above to the web.xml under InfoviewApp and restarting Tomcat?

Thanks
Mark

markaregan (BOB member since 2007-01-09)

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Web/App server level - all outward bound traffic.
i.e. just uncomment the statements in: C:\Program Files\Business ObjectsXI3.1\Tomcat55\conf\server.xml

MikeD :south_africa: (BOB member since 2002-06-18)

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Thanks Mike

markaregan (BOB member since 2007-01-09)

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Any movement on this?

I’ve been messing around with:

compression=“on”

compressionMinSize=“300”

noCompressionUserAgents=“gozilla, traviata” compressableMimeType=“text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/css,text/javascript, application/x-javascript,application/javascript,application/octet-stream”

I believe yslow is the tool to use for testing, I haven’t had a crack at this yet.

Any thoughts? Any further testing since 2009?

jpretorius :south_africa: (BOB member since 2008-07-14)

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SAP note 1339597 - BOE XI 3.x - Report creation and display performance over slow links

Enable HTTP compression on Tomcat

  1. Go to \Tomcat55\conf\server.xml
  2. In the http connector (line 68 for XI 3.1), enable compression by adding the following parameters to the connector:
    compression=“on”
    compressableMimeType=“text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/javascript,text/json”
  3. Restart Tomcat

salttan (BOB member since 2009-11-30)