using varnish as compression offloader

[Lars Jørgensen]

> gzip offloader case:
> If; "Accept Encoding: gzip" request comes, varnish can strip this
> using VCL and ask to the backend WITHOUT "Accept-Encoding". The server
> will sent clear text reply. Varnish will gzip it, cache it in gzip
> form and reply to the client as gzipped as asked.
> client - gzip - varnish - non gzip - server - non gzip -  varnish -
> gzip - client

No. Varnish cannot gzip objects. Have a look at https://www.varnish-cache.org/docs/trunk/phk/gzip.html


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Lars