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Use of SSL Creates Performance Overhead for Browsers

Article ID: 150031

Article Last Modified on 2/21/2007

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SUMMARY

The use of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) will slow performance between HTTP servers and browsers.

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If two HTTP web servers are developed with identical HTML, and SSL is applied to only one of the servers, the client browsers will experience a noticeable performance degradation when you browse the SSL web server.

NOTE: Use encryption sparingly. The use of large bitmaps behind an SSL site should be used with discretion.


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