Re: [squid-users] state of gzip/transfer-encoding?

From: Amos Jeffries <squid3_at_treenet.co.nz>
Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2008 14:03:15 +1200 (NZST)

> Squid does not do transfer encoding of objects on its own; however, it
> will cache and serve multiple encodings of the same object *as
> delivered to the cache by the origin* in order to send the requested
> encoding to clients. This is dependent on the origin server sending
> the proper Vary: Accept-Encoding header, and works best when the
> origin server sends unique ETags for each encoding type.
>
> -C

Every now and again I look at doing the gzip patch port. I'm currently
waiting on the eCAP support due out in one of the future 3.x releases.
That is expected to make the adaption much easier.

Amos

>
> On Sep 1, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Orion Henry wrote:
>
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I haven't been using squid for several years. What's the current
>> state with gzip+transfer_encoding+reverse_proxy? I just started
>> playing with 3.0 and noticed its not in there.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Orion
>>
>
>
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