Re: [squid-users] Dialup Accelerator

From: Matt <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2004 12:12:12 -0600

> > 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.

Can you name any? I have done some searches and not found much.

Matt

> 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
>
Received on Wed Jan 07 2004 - 11:12:52 MST

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