Hi Henrik, Thank you for the clarification. Do you know any other approach (or tool) that can help me to replace the accept-encoding header before it is processed by Squid? Regards, Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Henrik Nordstrom [mailto:henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 3:08 PM > To: Christian Tzolov > Cc: squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: Override the Accept-Encoding value > > On tis, 2008-10-21 at 14:55 +0200, Christian Tzolov wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to reduce the diversity of Accept-Encoding request header > > values by replacing the header with a hardcoded value like: > > "gzip,deflated". > > > > In Squid 2.6 there are two directives that seems sutible for the job: > > header_access and heaer_replace. Will the following configuration do the > > job? > > > > header_access Accept-Encoding deny all > > header_replace Accept-Encoding gzip,deflated > > > > If yes are they replaced before or after squid cache the entry? > > heder_access/replace is only applied on forwarded requests, modifying > the headers as sent by Squid. They do not modify Squid's own view of > received headers. > > Regards > Henrik