http/1.1, Transfer-encoding, offer to help

Hi,

My name is at top and bottom ';)

My main job for about 4 years is network administration, but I've been
coding in some high level languages (ok, some C) eventually to, as I
say, get things done. I'm no programmer in the real sense of the term, I
think.

I've been working with squid and other common application a ISP must
have, and have very good knowledge about the "externals" of this
transparent proxy.

In the simple task of getting all better all the time, now I'm seeking
about more optimization for our cache for the dial up users (believe,
this market isn't at all dead here in Brazil). The most I've done with
the constant changes on the M.O. of the users, optimizing squid at its
best, are working very well, but, hey, the need to be better...

Some time ago the since biggest paid ISP have announced a magical way to
speed their dialup users, "about 4x!", and this got me to begin thinking
about.

My thought is that they are using this type of transparent compression,
or with squid, or with apache + mod_{gzip,cache,proxy}.

That's the task that brought me here. I've browsed squid-* lists about
the encoding compression and saw that the better I can hope for, *if* it
may get in, was for squid 3.1.

I would like to get in touch with the developers, see what can be done
about it, and of course, help on my coding possibilities. Of course, we
can talk about the sponsoring too if someone more is interested on join
':)

Yours,

-- 
Eliphas Levy Theodoro <eliphas@rantac.com>
Administrador de Redes
http://www.rantac.com.br