[squid-users] Compression

Hi there...

With Apache web server, you can add the gzip module which compresses
data on the fly to the visitor cutting down dramatically on bandwidth
consumed. All current browsers support "on the fly" Gzip compression
and it works extremely well.

Is there a way that content served via the cache could be gzipped on the
fly? Perhaps it's already possible and I am not aware of it? My
opinion would be that this is a win/win scenario with the cache speeding
up delivery of content to the browser, saving bandwidth on the backbone
connections, and also delivering the content even faster to the browser
(especially a dial-up user).

Thanks,

Paul Stewart
Received on Thu Oct 18 2001 - 07:30:37 MDT