Israel Ben Guilherme Fonseca <israel.bgf@gmail.com> wrote:
> But here is the question, does the SSL compress the data too?
It can, if that is negotiated properly:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/ssl/ssl_faq.html#comp
This makes sense, because any attempt to compress binary encrypted
data will not buy much.
> I enabled the self-signed ssl mode for the java test, and It was
> indeed encrypted, but the traffic was still "big", differently to
> the python version.
>
> Any Ideas?
Apparently the JDBC driver isn't attempting to negotiate
compression. I don't know how hard that would be to change.
-Kevin