Take the 2-minute tour ×  We have a forward proxy for our
network which is Squid 2.7. This is managed for us by a third
party.  We noticed recently that http requests going from our
network to the web were having the Accept-Encoding header
removed. This was resulting in all web traffic across our
network (approx 8000+ PCs) being uncompressed even though the
browsers and server on each end were capable.  We have asked the
third party to look into this and they have said it is because
Squid 2.7 does not support compression.  I understand this to be
true but I was under the impression that the compression
happened on the webserver rather than the proxy. So...    1. Can
Squid 2.7 proxy and/or cache content that is gzipped?   2. If it
can, how/why might it be configured such that the Accept-
Encoding header is being removed? share|improve this question
Have you checked that your clients really are asking for
compressed content - there are a large number of supposedly
reputable "security" products which deliberately