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

J. Peng wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 7:05 PM, Amos Jeffries <squid3@treenet.co.nz> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> thanks. but sorry to hear that.
>
>> 2.6+ and 3.1+ are capable of properly handling broken servers
>> producing chunked-encoding data.
>>
>
> what's this Amos? can you give me the more detailed description? thanks.

I don't know that much about it myself sorry.

I do know its one of the encoding methods used in HTTP/1.1 that servers
are only supposed to send to 1.1 clients. Many broken software do send
it to squid anyway though.

Amos

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