Re: [squid-users] Reverse Proxy Cache - implementing gzip

Content codings (like gzip) are absolutely usable with HTTP/1.0. See
RFC2145.

On 19/01/2008, at 4:40 AM, Tory M Blue wrote:

> On Jan 18, 2008 12:46 AM, Ash Damle <ash@2028.com> wrote:
>> Hello. Any pointers how how to get Squid to do gzip compression and
>> then e-tags when used as a reverse proxy cache.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -Ash
>
> Has to do with version HTTP1.1 vs gzip. But since Squid passes http1.0
> version to your origin servers, they are going to respond in kind and
> thus the origin is not going to gzip the content (if squid preserved
> the 1.0 vs 1.1 version, the origin server could do what it wanted.
> But believe that is the RFC compliance that squid seems to be hard
> pressed to conform with.
>
> How much would it cost to get Squid to preserve the http version so
> that our servers could provide gzip functionality?
>
> Tory

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