Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: [Mod_gzip] Vary: header and mod_gzip

From: Henrik Nordström <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2002 05:45:50 +0200 (CEST)

On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 Michael.Schroepl@telekurs.de wrote:

> I don't think so.
>
> I am only afraid that already "Vary: UserAgent" would
> be a thing we don't like to get, as this might cause
> a very large number of variants to be stored in the proxy
> cache, for the sake of a simple Netscape 4 exclusion ...

Well, you don't really have a choice. It is all or nothing here. If you do
not include User-Agent then caches will not have a chance of knowing.

The excessive caching will be remedied in Squid-2.6, provided a mod_gzip
enabled Apache is capable of correct ETag and If-None-Match processing.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Tue Aug 27 2002 - 21:45:55 MDT

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