Re: [squid-users] Override the Accept-Encoding value

On tis, 2008-10-21 at 14:55 +0200, Christian Tzolov wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to reduce the diversity of Accept-Encoding request header
> values by replacing the header with a hardcoded value like:
> "gzip,deflated".
>
> In Squid 2.6 there are two directives that seems sutible for the job:
> header_access and heaer_replace. Will the following configuration do the
> job?
>
> header_access Accept-Encoding deny all
> header_replace Accept-Encoding gzip,deflated
>
> If yes are they replaced before or after squid cache the entry?

heder_access/replace is only applied on forwarded requests, modifying
the headers as sent by Squid. They do not modify Squid's own view of
received headers.

Regards
Henrik