ESI and Gzip

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <CAPpMyBHvYHQ1h61qqZmXrpcbb=BuP+yjj0yuMKzBgGsE4ORLhA at mail.gmail.com>, linuxsupport writes:

>I was testing ESI and Gzip in varnish

ESI & Gzip works in a pretty sneaky way in Varnish:  We stitch together
gzip'ed files on the fly.

The advantage of this is very high speed delivery, since there is no
gzip'ing to be done at delivery time, the disadvantage is a lower
compression ration, because we need to flush & align the gzip streams
to make the stitching possible.

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