Re: On the fly compression

On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Bertrand Petit wrote:

> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:45:44 +0100
> From: Bertrand Petit <elrond@phoe.netdev.net>
> To: Jesus Cea Avion <jcea@argo.es>, Lista SQUID <squid-users@ircache.net>
> Subject: Re: On the fly compression
> Resent-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 07:12:33 -0800 (PST)
> Resent-From: squid-users@ircache.net
>
> On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 02:23:13PM -0100, Jesus Cea Avion wrote:
> > Since lots of browsers send "Accept-Encoding: gzip" in headers, does
> > exist any project to add "on the fly" gzip compression to squid?.
>
> This is a great idea, but this would require quite a lot of
> CPU on busy caches.

Though if one was paying extortionate rates for bandwidth, it may be
cunning.

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