Re: [squid-users] how to make squid support gzip compression?

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3@dont-contact.us>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 00:05:06 +1300

J. Peng wrote:
> how to make squid support gzip compression?
> most useragents and web servers support gzip compression feature, how
> to config squid support it?
>
> thanks in advance.

gzip/deflate has not been added to squid properly. There was work done a
long while ago and not completed.
  2.6+ and 3.1+ are capable of properly handling broken servers
producing chunked-encoding data.

If you need gzip, please sponsor its completion.

Amos

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There are serious security advisories out on all earlier releases.
Received on Fri Feb 22 2008 - 04:04:43 MST

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