With the recently addition of HTTP compression to Mozilla, I thought it
would be a good idea to start adding a feature to squid to automagically
allow compressed data to be sent to the client.
Basically this involves handling two types of headers from the client,
Accept-Encoding for HTTP/1.0 and Transfer-Encoding for HTTP/1.1.
As you can see from http://www.mozilla.org/projects/apache/gzip/, adding
compression significantly speeds up client access by up to 30% on a 28.8
modem.
The biggest problem I see is that gzip eats CPU, so obviously gzip -9 won't
be the prefered compression method on large servers :)
There should be ACL's setup to handle gzip'ing, ie, I should be able to
control what ips, what types of files, etc that will be gziped if requested
to be.
Jordan
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