RE: filtering of proxy response

Ian,

Thanks for the response. See below for my answers to your questions.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Holsman [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 1:25 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: filtering of proxy response
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Steven,
> Thanks for using the list.
> there are a couple of questions I have about your configuration, and 
> what you are expecting to see.
> 
> 
> 1. is the server you are proxying for capable of compressing the 
> information (ie.. does IT have gzip compression)
Some are, and some are not. The idea is to setup a forward compression proxy
server
so that the content fetched from remote sites will be compressed before it
is delivered
to the client agent.


> 2. are you trying to get the proxy server to do the compression
Yes.

> 3. what kind of config are you using to add deflate to the 
> filter chain
I have tried both of
	AddOutputFilter DEFLATE html
and
	SetOutputFilter DEFLATE.
I did one at a time, though.

> 
> TIA
> Ian
> 
> Steve Zhou wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > The deflate filter does not seem to have any effect on the content 
> > fetched from
> > an origin server when Apache is configured as a proxy. Look at the 
> > code, the
> > proxy module does seem to have an output filter chain. 
> However, what 
> > the user
> > agent received is the clear text, even though the deflate output 
> > filter has been
> > turned on for the proxy. Can some one explain why?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Steven Zhou
> >
> 
> >
>