> What about a two way strategy? Storing two versions (one compressed and one
> uncompressed) of the same object requires some additional disk space,
> though it wouldn't require compression to take place for all but the first
> high-level cache getting the uncompressed object data. Several checks to
The correct place to compress is the origin server before putting the
file onto the disk. The only issue for Squid should be whether to
force Accept-Encoding and decode if not in the request. Decoding is
designed to be much faster that encoding for the deflate (aka gzip)
method.
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