Re: [squid-users] Eliminating HTTP headers

From: Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar@dont-contact.us>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2006 17:17:57 +0200

On 05.04.06 13:55, miguel Angel Vazquez wrote:
> we are trying to accelerate our Web traffic and we wanted to know if
> Squid, which is going to work as a transparent proxy, can eliminate
> HTTP headers in order to have a lighter data packet.

:-))

> In fact we are experimenting with an UMTS-3G Channel so if we can
> reduce some bytes it will be a good start for our development.

HTTP/1.1 headers usually are there for reducing data transfers because of
efficient caching. This is the way you should go. Although there may be some
headers that you may throw off, I don't think it's worth it.

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