Re: [squid-users] Compression

On 23 Aug 2001 22:14:09 -0400, Brian wrote:
> On Thursday 23 August 2001 09:38 pm, Robert Collins wrote:
> > Vary plays a large role - the identity encoding for transfer encodings
> > can vary in actual encoding due to content encoding.
> >
> > Note that the apache mod-gzip does content encoding not transfer
> > encoding. Content transcoding can be a neat thing, but it interferes
> > with the end to end model for http - transfer encoding was introduced to
> > allow proxies in the transmission path to still encode things
> > appropriately without affecting that end to end model...
>
> Ahh... that was my hangup.
>
> Will the new infrastructure allow for handling content-encoding at a later
> time?

Yes - in that content-encoding alteration suffers from the same basic
issues transfer encoding does, so whipping up code to do that is trivial
once the transfer encoding stuff is production ready.

> (I can see this would be a bad idea for a cache, but it would be
> very useful and logical on an httpd accel.)

Absolutely :}.

Rob
Received on Thu Aug 23 2001 - 20:19:38 MDT