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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:hno@hem.passagen.se]
> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 4:55 PM
> To: Robert Collins
> Cc: alexd@circadence.ca; squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] How can we force Squid to cache both
> compressed and uncompressed copies of a Web page?
>
>
> Robert Collins wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
>
> If the server returns different Content-Encoding results based on
> Accept-Encoding then a Vary header should be used to indicate this.
>
> Vary: Accept-Encoding

Of course. Still, non-conforing server may not do this.
 
> Transfer-Encoding is another matter.

I am unaware of _any_ user agents that routinely use Transfer-Encoding.
And HTTP/1.1 mandates that squid will never recieve transfer-encoded
messages (while it makes 1.0 requests) which is why I didn't mention it.
Of course, non-conformant servers may still exist.

Rob
 
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> Henrik Nordstrom
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Received on Fri May 18 2001 - 01:16:57 MDT