Re: [squid-users] caching gzip pages

Geetha_Priya wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> www.yahoo.com and other websites send gzip versions of their web page. The squid just stores [caches ] it in some location and the browser can interpret/deflate the gzip and hence displays the webpage.
>
> In this regard How does squid cache web pages that comes as gzip format?

Exactly the same. Just with index data saying its zipped or non-zipped.

> I see other http proxies [like wcol for ex.] creates directory named www.yahoo.com and stores a file named no_name.html and then when you click further links from this page they go on creating subdirectories with same names as the requested link.
> Does squid also work this way? Can you send me a pointer to the code
where I can checkout its caching implementation.
>

No. Squid uses completely different methods, based around quick hashes.
If you are still interested the squid code is all at:
   http://www.squid-cache.org/Versions/

Amos

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