Re: [syndication] feed compression

[Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>]

If you want to cache negotiated content, it's a concern; however, the 
overall benefits of compression to the network makes it worthwhile, 
IMO. Get your ISP to upgrade if they still use a Squid that's that old.

BTW, another way to do compression:
 http://www.mnot.net/cgi_buffer/
for Perl, Python and PHP with a one-line include.




On Jun 14, 2004, at 8:22 AM, Ross Wm. Rader wrote:

> On 6/14/2004 11:09 AM elijah wright noted that:
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> > feed compression should be completely transparent to proxy server 
> > folk.
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> Have the older versions of squid stopped throwing "Vary:" headers on 
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> floor :) or (more likely) has mod_gzip made this a non-issue?
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