Re: squid-3.0 (3.1?) ce: gzip+deflate

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 17:57, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2003, Gonzalo Arana wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm back with this issue, now with squid-3.
> >
> > I need some basic guides to know where may I add Content-Encoding: gzip
> > and/or deflate support for squid.
>
> Content-Encoding should not be done in a proxy unless you know exacly what
> you are doing. There is very fargoing implications of applying
> Content-Encoding to a entity.

OUCH! ok, were may I read about it? (appart RFCs containing
'Content-Encoding').

>
> Transder-Encoding may be done freely in a proxy with no implications,
> except that HTTP/1.1 support is needed...

mmm I want to compress text/(html|plain) responses to my dial-up users.
This can't be done with Transfer-Encoding, am I wright?

>
> Regards
> Henrik

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