Re: [squid-users] Compression

I did not mention it before to the forum because of problems.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Edward Millington. BSc, Network+
(Systems Administrator)
Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
Palm Plaza
Wildey
St. Michael
Barbados
1-246-430-7435
Fax : 1-246-431-0170
edward@cariaccess.com
www.cariaccess.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Kiernan" <mkiernan@onet.pl>
To: "squid user group" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:44 AM
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Compression

> That's good to hear. I'll also post back how I get on
> with it (I have to build a few webservers to test it
> out on first).
>
> - Mike
>
> Edward wrote:
> >
> > I am currently testing ehyperspace.
> >
> > It is not to bad.
> >
> > There are now working with us to sort out some problems with the program
> > with my squid 2.5
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> >
> > Best regards,
> >
> > Edward Millington. BSc, Network+
> > (Systems Administrator)
> > Cariaccess Communications Ltd.
> > Palm Plaza
> > Wildey
> > St. Michael
> > Barbados
> > 1-246-430-7435
> > Fax : 1-246-431-0170
> > edward@cariaccess.com
> > www.cariaccess.com
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Michael Kiernan" <mkiernan@onet.pl>
> > To: "Paul Stewart" <pauls@nexicom.net>
> > Cc: "squid user group" <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 10:08 AM
> > Subject: Re: [squid-users] Compression
> >
> > > I'm looking into this myself. I don't want to use mod_gzip
> > > as I want to keep the load off the backend apache server,
> > > which is already maxxed out.
> > >
> > > Ideally I'd also like it in the squid proxy, but I was
> > > seeing if there was another way before I start hacking squid.
> > > The idea was to use a compression proxy as another proxy
> > > layer in the content path [Robert Collins sent out some
> > > good info on this a few weeks ago - see the archive]
> > >
> > > As far as I can tell apache mod_gzip won't compress content
> > > when apache is run as a proxy [I've tried apache 1.3.20,
> > > mod_gzip isn't yet ready for the 2.X beta apaches yet as
> > > far as I can tell]. Anyway, I doubt Apache in proxy mode
> > > could perform, even if it did do the content compression
> > > (which I can't get it to do). I posted something to
> > > comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix about this, but nobody
> > > has answered as yet.
> > >
> > > So the alternatives:
> > >
> > > 1) squid : can be patched [some (very)beta patches for
Content/Transfer
> > > encoding are available]. This is definitely the best solution.
> > > 2) Commercial solutions:
> > > www.vigos.com (I haven't looked at this)
> > > www.ehyperspace.com [software sold to them by
> > > remotecommunications inc who wrote mod_gzip]
> > > I've received a trial version of their software which I'm
> > > trying out this week. A bit of reverse engineering on the
> > > binary shows it's nothing more than a simple gzip compression
> > > proxy compiled with gcc - though you'd think it was something
> > > a lot more special if you look at their website ;-)
> > > 3) Rustle up my own gzip proxy. I've already done this, but
> > > don't have the time to 'harden' it for production as
> > > much as I would like [actually, it's just painfully
> > > tedious writing accurate/compliant parsing code for http].
> > > It's pretty simple - just using zlib and some basic proxy
> > > select/pthread code to make it shift.
> > >
> > > I suspect to get this working I'll either have to invest some
> > > serious hacking time in either my compression proxy or coming
> > > up with a hardened squid patch (unless Robert/anyone else has
> > > progressed any since the earlier thread). It does make a lot
> > > more sense to hack it into squid.
> > >
> > > It's not my primary project at the moment. But if you've got
> > > more time than I have, It'd be good to hear what you come up with.
> > >
> > >
> > > cheers,
> > > Mike
> > >
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Hi there...
> > > >
> > > > With Apache web server, you can add the gzip module which compresses
> > > > data on the fly to the visitor cutting down dramatically on
bandwidth
> > > > consumed. All current browsers support "on the fly" Gzip
compression
> > > > and it works extremely well.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a way that content served via the cache could be gzipped on
the
> > > > fly? Perhaps it's already possible and I am not aware of it? My
> > > > opinion would be that this is a win/win scenario with the cache
speeding
> > > > up delivery of content to the browser, saving bandwidth on the
backbone
> > > > connections, and also delivering the content even faster to the
browser
> > > > (especially a dial-up user).
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Paul Stewart
> > >
> > > --
> > > Michael Kiernan
> > > Onet.pl S.A.
> > > Krakow, Poland
> > > http://www.onet.pl/
> > >
>
> --
> Michael Kiernan
> Onet.pl S.A.
> Krakow, Poland
> http://www.onet.pl/
>
Received on Thu Oct 18 2001 - 10:31:51 MDT