useNoSSLForPackages and other badly-conceived options (notice non-hijacked thread!)

[Paul Gear]

Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> ...
> I would expect the effect of SSL on bandwidth use to be minimal. If you
> really want to reduce bandwidth, I think there would be more gains if
> some RPM packages were compressed using bzip2 rather than gzip. 

It has a huge effect, for the simple reason that it is *non-cacheable*.
 If you have multiple systems that need the packages, you have to turn
on useNoSSLForPackages if you don't want to download every package for
every machine.
-- 
Paul
http://paulgear.webhop.net

A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should i start my reply below the quoted text?
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