>HTTPS = more overhead than HTTP
Is that true? Most encryption schemes include compression (since compression removes redundancy, and redundancy is where cryptanalysts attack).
Is that true? Most encryption schemes include compression (since compression removes redundancy, and redundancy is where cryptanalysts attack).
"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-perf...