Re: [squid-users] Dialup Accelerator

From: Henrik Nordstrom <hno@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 17:40:24 +0100 (CET)

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Matt wrote:

> Is it possible to use Squid as a dialup accelerator? I think the main way
> they work is at the ISP headend they take all images and convert them to
> highly compressed *.png and compress html and other stuff with gzip.

Squid is not well suited for this type of proxying. Squid is designed as a
general-purpose semantically transparent HTTP proxy.

There is other proxies who are designed for the above purpose which should
od a good job. These can also be combined with Squid for increased caching
capabilities.

Regards
Henrik
Received on Wed Jan 07 2004 - 15:10:49 MST

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