RE: [squid-users] Compressing HTML pages before sending to client

Oops, seem to have deleted the first post in the thread...

On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 13:03, Tony Melia (DMS) wrote:
> Sounds good, but I think it would make more sense to compress the file
> before committing it to disk at the caching level so as to compress the
> cache.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Mena [mailto:rt_mena@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Monday, 21 July 2003 12:07
> To: squid-users@squid-cache.org
> Subject: Re: [squid-users] Compressing HTML pages before sending to client
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I recently searched the archives and found one
> post/reply where the ability to dinamically compress
> the HTML before sending to the users was put as a
> 3.1/3.2 feature.
>
> I do not subscribe to the devel list so should we
> expect this 3.1 for this year ?

No. 3.0 is in the release process now, 3.1 at the earliest will be next
year.

> Is there any other proxy (and that can me sent to me
> directly) that do offer this feature ?

Not that I'm aware of, although apache mod_gzip + mod_proxy may do this.

> It really can save a lot of bandwidth and time for
> dial-up users so please consider adding this as soon
> as possible.

It's been implemented before in the TE branch on devel.squid-cache.org
by Patrick McManus, and then enhanced by me to support proxy-proxy
compression as well. However, severe logic problems prevented
stabilisation of this feature in the 2.x codebase. Thats why it's slated
for a 3.x release.

If you will find it valuable, you might consider sponsoring (alone or as
a group of interested folk) a squid developer to implement it for 3.x.
I'd be happy to discuss this with you..

Cheers,
Rob
(Squid developer)

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