On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 14:56 +0800, 树新 郑 wrote:
> hi, I've seen the patch modules of squid which support http-gzip transfer 
> mode with http1.1.
> 
> (These modules's url such as:
> 
> http://devel.squid-cache.org/projects.html#gzip
> 
> http://devel.squid-cache.org/stale_projects.html#te
> 
> http://devel.squid-cache.org/stale_projects.html#te_modules)
> 
> I don't think it is a good idea ton encode and decode the HTTP-GZIP format 
> data in squid,
> 
> because the squid just only a web-cache proxy, not a web-server like MS-IIS 
> or Apache.
> 
> And the encoding/decoding process is so spensive, which will be very slowly 
> down the
> 
> squid.


Those projects refer to 'Transfer Encoding' not 'Content Encoding'. They
are different things, and squid MUST perform the decode and encode upon
request for HTTP/1.1 conformance.

-Rob
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