On Thu, Oct 18, 2001, Paul Stewart wrote:
> 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).
There has been some work done on this (check out the various
transfer-encoding projects at http://devel.squid-cache.org/)
but none have been committed to the squid tree yet.
Adrian
Received on Thu Oct 18 2001 - 07:32:58 MDT
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