On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Matt wrote:

> Is it possible to use Squid as a dialup accelerator?  I think the main way
> they work is at the ISP headend they take all images and convert them to
> highly compressed *.png and compress html and other stuff with gzip.

Squid is not well suited for this type of proxying. Squid is designed as a 
general-purpose semantically transparent HTTP proxy.

There is other proxies who are designed for the above purpose which should 
od a good job. These can also be combined with Squid for increased caching 
capabilities.

Regards
Henrik

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