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Figure 1-20.
Accessing APEX via the EPG
Notice how in Figure 1-20 the port number is 8080; you could have specified port 80 if you wanted to
use the default port. Also notice that instead of
/pls/apex
which we saw with the OHS, with the EPG we
simply have
/apex
.
Compression and Expiry Headers with the EPG
Now that we have the EPG running, let's take a look at a typical APEX application page using
YSlow
as we
did in the OHS section.
Figure 1-21 shows that we achieve an F rating for both the Add Expires headers and Compress
components with gzip tests. Now, this is potentially where we see some issues with the EPG: there is
unfortunately no support for compressing the data between the browser and the EPG. So what are your
options here? Well, the only workaround is to use another external web server that sits in between the
EPG and the browser and proxies requests between the two, compressing the content in the process.
