[rabbitmq-discuss] RabbitMQ/Shovel & Compression

[Simon MacMullen]

On 25/01/12 09:50, Jelle Smet wrote:
> I was wondering whether there would be any chance that Shovel or
> RabbitMQ itself gets a compression functionality anytime in the future?

It would be a nice feature, but pretty low priority TBH.

> I have multiple RabbitMQ's which shovel messages over WAN to each
> other,which is working great. I realize compression would be really nice
> to have in order to reduce the amount of traffic going over WAN.
> I would like to avoid letting my clients handle compression and
> decompression.
>
> Any idea anyone?

Set up a compressed SSH tunnel? Or if the overhead of encryption is too 
great, hook up netcat and gzip in front of Rabbit?

Cheers, Simon

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Simon MacMullen
RabbitMQ, VMware