Re: the way to support content-encoding of HTTP1.1

On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 14:56 +0800, 树新 郑 wrote:
> hi, I've seen the patch modules of squid which support http-gzip transfer mode with http1.1.
>
> (These modules's url such as:
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> http://devel.squid-cache.org/projects.html#gzip
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> http://devel.squid-cache.org/stale_projects.html#te
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> http://devel.squid-cache.org/stale_projects.html#te_modules)
>
> I don't think it is a good idea ton encode and decode the HTTP-GZIP format data in squid,
>
> because the squid just only a web-cache proxy, not a web-server like MS-IIS or Apache.
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> And the encoding/decoding process is so spensive, which will be very slowly down the
>
> squid.

Those projects refer to 'Transfer Encoding' not 'Content Encoding'. They
are different things, and squid MUST perform the decode and encode upon
request for HTTP/1.1 conformance.

-Rob

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