Re: [squid-users] How can we force Squid to cache both compressed and uncompressed copies of a Web page?

Easy answer: filter the accept-encoding header from your clients.
Better answer: Extend squid 2.5's vary support to consider the
Content-Encoding header as a vary header.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: <alexd@circadence.ca>
To: <squid-users@squid-cache.org>
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 1:56 AM
Subject: [squid-users] How can we force Squid to cache both compressed
and uncompressed copies of a Web page?

> Hi there.
>
> Here is the problem:
> when browser that supports compression requests Web page through
Squid, and
> Web server returns page in compressed format, Squid caches that page
in
> compressed form. If another browser that does not support compression
> requests the same page through Squid, Squid returns compressed page.
>
> My questions are:
> Is there anything special in configuration settings that can resolve
this
> problem?
> Do you know the way that can help to avoid this situation?
>
>
> Alexander Doudorov
> Programmer
> Toronto
>
Received on Thu May 17 2001 - 16:58:07 MDT