RE: [squid-users] caching gzip pages

Thanks for your response. I do have squid source code with me. The src directory has bunch of C files. Cache_mngr.c, ipcache.c and so on, would it be possible to nail down a few files which would possibly talk about squid's techniques for caching so I can look into those.

Thanks and regards
Geetha

-----Original Message-----
From: Amos Jeffries [mailto:squid3_at_treenet.co.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 9:20 PM
To: Geetha_Priya
Cc: squid-users_at_squid-cache.org
Subject: 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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