Re: [squid-users] Compression

Thanks for the info - sorry I missed this.

Where do I look for this? I downloaded what looks like
the latest squid head for 2.5 - is it in there -
can't see anything obvious in the source or the changelog ...?

Thanks again,
Mike

> This was answered two days ago. For those who missed it:
>
> On Monday 20 August 2001 07:54 pm, Robert Collins wrote:
> > On 20 Aug 2001 17:26:24 -0400, Brian wrote:
> > > mod_gzip is nice, but the dynamic content compression is still a
> > > little flaky when mixed with php (for us, anyway), and it hangs apache
> > > children now and then. Plus it hasn't been updated since March.
> >
> > The problem is that squids internals look something like
> > network->upstream->cache_dir->clientside->network
> >
> > which means that important control information gets lost (when the data
> > hits the cache_dir).
> >
> > In particular range requests can confuse squid very badly.
> >
> > Should be ok for playing with. I've basically let it bitrot while the
> > infrastructure to support it cleanly is created.
> >
> > Rob
>
> IOW, the existing code is functional, but not production solid.
>
> -- Brian

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