Last modified: 2010-04-06 03:50:05 UTC
Since the upgrade of Wikimedia's ViewVC, it has been painfully slow via HTTP.
After doing some testing, it appears that http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/*docroot*/wm-styles.css is being sent with the wrong content-length header. Currently it seems to be sent with content-length: 7628 regardless of if the css file is gziped or not. However 7628 is the length of the uncompressed file, so if the file is gzipped, firefox expects there to be more content then there really is, and waits 15 seconds for the server to finish serving up the rest of the css file, before hitting some sort of timeout.
I've set "allow_compress" to 0, so viewvc will no longer send compressed data. The site seems to be fast now, what's your impression?
Can confirm it's speediness. So I'm marking it as FIXED.