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

From: Orion Henry <orion.henry_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 23:11:00 -0400

Thats too bad. I suppose I can put an nginx reverse proxy in front of
the squid with gzip enabled. One more hop but at least its a fast
hop.

On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Chris Woodfield <rekoil_at_semihuman.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> 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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