Re: haproxy and compression... Anybody?

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Unai Rodriguez <me#u-journal.org> wrote:

> > ok, so meaning HAProxy is able to peer inside the content to do its layer
> > 7
> > stuff, and it is also able to talk gzip to the clients? If so, that would
> > be
> > what I'm looking for. But currently, I dont see any zlib includes in the
> > source code. Unless haproxy implements its own compression in-house? (in
> > which case, I'm still looking through the code - but dont see anything).
>
> Hi there,
>
> My HAProxy was not compressing anything, but was able to pass the http
> requests to the backend servers (web server in my case). These web servers
> were the ones doing the gzip processing.
>
> I have been able to do this setup on:
>
> - IIS 5.0 under Windows 2000
> - IIS 6.0 under Windows 2003
> - Apache 2.0.x & 2.2.x under Debian Linux Sarge & Etch
>

so can I just check - can you verify that the content that the clients see, when passed through HAProxy, are gzipped as well?

-jf

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