Re: Does Squid store gzipped HTML?

Yee Man Chan wrote:

> Hi, folks,
>
> I am using 2.2S5 and IE5. I find that recently some sites gzipped their HTML
> document to speed up access. One example is http://sports.yahoo.com/
>
> I used gdb to dump the request from IE5 and the request from Squid to
> sports.yahoo.com
>
> Request from IE to Squid:
>
> GET / HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept: */*\r\nReferer: http://www.yahoo.com/\r\nAccept-Langu
> age: en-us\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/4.0
> (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)\r\nHost:
> sports.yahoo.com\r\nConnection: Keep-Alive\r\nCookie: B=e515j1jpmmgnh\r\n\r\n
>
> Request from Squid to sports.yahoo.com
>
> GET / HTTP/1.0\r\nAccept: */*\r\nReferer: http://www.yahoo.com/\r\nAccept-Langu
> age: en-us\r\nAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate\r\nUser-Agent: Mozilla/4.0
> (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Windows 98; DigExt)\r\nHost:
> sports.yahoo.com\r\nCookie: B=e515j1jpmmgnh\r\nVia: 1.1 www.enjoyweb.com:3128
> (Squid/2.2.STABLE5)\r\nX-Forwarded-For: 192.168.2.223\r\nCache-Control:
> max-age=259200\r\nConnection: keep-alive\r\n\r\n
>
> When I was inside gdb, I find that the reply is like the following with
> garbage (presumably gzipped HTML)
>
> HTTP/1.0 200 OK
> Date: Thu, 21 Oct 1999 17:32:51 GMT
> Cache-Control: no-cache
> Vary: Accept-Encoding
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html
> Content-Encoding: gzip
>
> My question is: Suppose the server is not doing no-cache, does Squid gunzip
> the content and then save it in hard drive? or save it in the gzipped form?
>

I wouldn't think so.

It seems a bit odd to be doing it this way. gzipping will reduce their outbound
bandwidth and speed up their servers....but applying no-cache would have the
opposite effect. Weird behaviour.

D
Received on Thu Oct 21 1999 - 16:07:19 MDT