RE: [squid-users] Compressed file gets uncompressed

The older Squids are running 2.5-STABLE10 and the newer ones 2.5-STABLE12.
The back-end servers are IIS6 using gzip and deflate. I would think that
Squid would store and forward the compressed content but nope. Maybe it
doesn't apply to accelerated content?

I'll check the logs and see if I can get more details.

Thank,

Jon

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Robertson [mailto:crobertson@gci.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 5:13 PM
To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
Subject: RE: [squid-users] Compressed file gets uncompressed

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon [mailto:jonsml@gmail.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 9:41 AM
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: [squid-users] Compressed file gets uncompressed
>
>
> Hi list,
>
> I have squids running in HTTP accelerator mode where my servers
> sitting behind them serve compressed files. When I call those files
> through squid, they get uncompressed by squid. I was checking the
> document status using pipeboost.com's URL compression report page, it
> comes out to be uncompressed when I go through squid.
>
> Is there a way to keep them compressed when it passes through squid?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jon
>

To the best of my knowledge, recent versions of Squid allow pass-through and
caching of compressed content. I just tested Squid (2.5STABLE7) as a proxy
(not an accelerator) and validated the former.

What version of Squid are you using? What are you using as the back-end
(apache, IIS, etc.)? What is the compression method (mod_gzip, pipeboost,
etc.)?

Chris
Received on Fri Feb 03 2006 - 13:31:31 MST