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by WALoeIII 5711 days ago
I don't want SSL for Facebook. SSL is slow, and its only slower the worse your latency. Until SSL is fundamentally changed to be fast, I'm going to avoid it at all costs.

Currently on my production application it adds a minimum of 200ms per request.

This is yet another reason to use a tool like 1password.

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Turn on persistent connections on your server, ensure you have session caching enabled on your server, and ensure your servers are sharing the session cache.