[squid-users] Found a work around for my gzip issue

I didn't notice that Squid does a nice thing , all things considered ..

When the protocol is sent as HTTP 1.1 to the Squid cache, it rewrites
the request as HTTP 1.0 (changing the SERVER_PROTOCOL header) , but
sticks the origin client protocol version into the "Via" header.

so for a snippet of our code, i can inspect the via header, and if the
client has come in via 1.1 I can have the server gzip the data and
send it on.. This has to be done in secondary code, as obviously
apache and everything else is going to reply with the originating http
version and with squid, it's 1.0 ..

i was not aware of this and didn't catch it until today.

-Tory
Received on Fri Jan 18 2008 - 14:15:27 MST