Please help testing gzip code in Varnish

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

I have added the first part of gzip support to varnish-trunk.

This is new code with semi-twisted logic under the hood, so
I am very dependent on you guys helping to test it out.

If you set the paramter http_gzip_support to true, varnish
will always send "Accept-encoding: gzip" to the backend.

If the client does not understand gzip, varnish will gunzip
the object during delivery.

This means that you only will only cache the gzip'ed version of
objects.

The responsibility for gzip'ing the object is with your backend,
Varnish doesnt don't know which objects you want to gzip and which
not (ie: images: no, html: yes, but what about .cgi ?)

ESI is not supported with gzip mode yet, that is the next and
even more involved step.

When you file tickets, please use "version = trunk" in trac

Thanks in advance,

Poul-Henning

PS: Also be aware that "purge" is now called "ban" in -trunk.

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