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
