What about performance? If Squids needs to compress every file, then will decrease the performance a lot....and it will ask a lot of CPU.
If you're using one Squid proxy it will save diskspace, but that's it.
But if you have multiple Squids running, and those Squid can communicate to each other with compressed files it will save a lot bandwith, and the speed between those 2 servers will increase......but like I said, you need more powerfull machines.
rgrds,
Bart Robert Collins wrote:
Oops, seem to have deleted the first post in the thread...
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 13:03, Tony Melia (DMS) wrote:
Sounds good, but I think it would make more sense to compress the file
before committing it to disk at the caching level so as to compress the
cache.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Mena [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, 21 July 2003 12:07
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [squid-users] Compressing HTML pages before sending to client
Hi,
I recently searched the archives and found one post/reply where the ability to dinamically compress the HTML before sending to the users was put as a 3.1/3.2 feature.
I do not subscribe to the devel list so should we
expect this 3.1 for this year ?
No. 3.0 is in the release process now, 3.1 at the earliest will be next year.
Is there any other proxy (and that can me sent to me
directly) that do offer this feature ?
Not that I'm aware of, although apache mod_gzip + mod_proxy may do this.
It really can save a lot of bandwidth and time for
dial-up users so please consider adding this as soon
as possible.
It's been implemented before in the TE branch on devel.squid-cache.org by Patrick McManus, and then enhanced by me to support proxy-proxy compression as well. However, severe logic problems prevented stabilisation of this feature in the 2.x codebase. Thats why it's slated for a 3.x release.
If you will find it valuable, you might consider sponsoring (alone or as a group of interested folk) a squid developer to implement it for 3.x. I'd be happy to discuss this with you..
Cheers, Rob (Squid developer)
