Re: [squid-users] Is there a way to force Encoding?

Hi,
Squid currently doesn't support HTTP/1.1, so it can't do what you're
asking.

ADrian

On Thu, Mar 28, 2002, nick wrote:
> I'm not sure if this feature has been implemented or not:
>
> What I mean is that if user-agent is capable of "Accept-Encoding" and
> the upstream http server doesn't use encoding, can squid be configured
> to gzip the content and send it back to user-agent with a
> "Content-Encoded" header? It can save quite some bandwidth as well as
> some disk space, althought the latter is not our major concern. Sure
> this behavior may violate HTTP spec, and consume more CPU time for the
> first download, but it seems to be useful...
>
> Also, it makes sense to distinguish between static and dynamic content.
> It obviously works better with static ones.
>
> -nick
>
Received on Thu Mar 28 2002 - 23:11:02 MST