Does httpZip work with Akamai products?
Akamai has developed the world’s largest content distribution network, essentially offloading requests to a local server for bandwidth-intensive files like images and videos (or any file the Akamai client wants to offload to their network). For example, a user/browser in Singapore requesting content from an origin server in San Diego has to travel many hops in the Internet to download the content for that site. However, if the San Diego Web server was on Akamai’s network, the request could be answered from a closer server in Singapore that is part of Akamai’s network, an Akamaized server that has essentially pre-downloaded the content from the origin server in San Diego. Result? The Singapore browser gets that page loading much faster than before, when the request had to be routed to all the way to San Diego. Many of the Internet’s largest sites rely on Akamai for speed, but there has always been a catch. Akamai’s network has not been compatible with origin server HTTP compression. Por
