RE: [squid-users] Compressing HTML pages before sending to client

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 14:54, Tony Melia (DMS) wrote:
> I would have presumed squid would decompress before sending to client.
> While there will be a processor and memory overhead in decompressing, html
> files tend to compress really well, and if this was to be implemented, maybe
> an ACL could exist so as not to waste time trying to compress .jpg files
> which are already compressed.

There are a number of permutations. Without /serious/ internal surgery
squid will be limited to a very simple approach:
on disk: uncompressed.
transmit as compressed or not depending on browser support + acl's.
Rob

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