RE: HTTP Compression & Squid

> so performance does not matter, right?

Depends on how it's implemented. If it compresses in real time, yes it'll
bog down your server.. but if it compresses while otherwise idle... I think
it might be a useful feature.

Basically you would write the file directly to disk, and put that file in a
queue to be compressed.. once the load on your server is low enough, it
would just throw it along to a gzip process to be compressed.

Now the big problem is clients which don't support encoding, you would need
to uncompress the files...

Of course, this probably won't be a good thing till Mozilla is released and
more than 90% of the people have the ability to accept gzip'ed data.

It was just a suggestion,

Jordan

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