On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 20:36, jack beany wrote: > Hi All, > > Could someone give me a to-the-point answer on: > > a) Does Squid internally support compression of data sent and received, if > so, how is it activated/enforced for various mimetypes?
No. > b) Are there any modules that plugin to squid to enhance speed through low > b/w connections(mod_gzip)? Not of production quality. > I use the latest Mozilla, and that obviously sends the Accept-Encoding: > gzip,deflate header, but everything still goes through in plaintext. Accept-Encoding is only of use for transcoding caches (squid isn't one), and for origin servers - which get to decide whether to use compressed data or not. TE - Transfer Encoding is appropriate for proxy caches, clients and servers - but there is also no module for this at the moment. Cheers, Rob -- GPG key available at: <http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt>.
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