Re: [squid-users] Compression

On Wednesday 22 August 2001 11:39 am, Mike Kiernan wrote:
> We want to throw some new hardware at
> over the wire compression of text content.
>
> Apache has compression module(s); what
> about squid?

This was answered two days ago. For those who missed it:

On Monday 20 August 2001 07:54 pm, Robert Collins wrote:
> On 20 Aug 2001 17:26:24 -0400, Brian wrote:
> > mod_gzip is nice, but the dynamic content compression is still a
> > little flaky when mixed with php (for us, anyway), and it hangs apache
> > children now and then. Plus it hasn't been updated since March.
>
> The problem is that squids internals look something like
> network->upstream->cache_dir->clientside->network
>
> which means that important control information gets lost (when the data
> hits the cache_dir).
>
> In particular range requests can confuse squid very badly.
>
> Should be ok for playing with. I've basically let it bitrot while the
> infrastructure to support it cleanly is created.
>
> Rob

IOW, the existing code is functional, but not production solid.

        -- Brian
Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 13:28:04 MDT