* Amos Jeffries <squid3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > So I have finally got around to implementing the proxy compression > feature in HTTP. > > The code and more info is available at: > <https://code.launchpad.net/~yadi/squid/te-gzip> > > This Squid built with zlib can right now receive and decompress on the > fly traffic from a server which uses Transfer-Encoding: deflate. I don't understand this feature. Why is the compressed data not simply passed on to the client? > The primary use-case is for Squid installations where two proxies are > used to reduce bandwidth over a slow or expensive link (ie satellite). So the proxies are compressing everything (between them? between proxy and internet? between client and proxy?) -- Ralf Hildebrandt Charite Universitätsmedizin Berlin ralf.hildebrandt@xxxxxxxxxx Campus Benjamin Franklin http://www.charite.de Hindenburgdamm 30, 12203 Berlin Geschäftsbereich IT, Abt. Netzwerk fon: +49-30-450.570.155 _______________________________________________ squid-users mailing list squid-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.squid-cache.org/listinfo/squid-users
