Custom applications and gzip

I saw in a previous question that responses for static files served by nginx are gzip compressed when possible. Will nginx also gzip responses from custom applications when possible? Or would the custom application need to do the gzipping itself? Thanks.

asked Jun 09 '12 at 01:26

Duke
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POSTs would have to be gziped by the client application and the server application would have to know what to do with them as well.

answered Jun 09 '12 at 01:37

johns ♦♦
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Right, I understand nginx wouldn't decompress gzipped requests before forwarding to the custom application. But if nginx sees that a client accepts gzip responses, will it gzip the response from the custom application?

(Jun 09 '12 at 03:15) Duke

Only if the response type matches nginx's gzip_types. For example: text/plain, text/css, application/x-javascript, text/xml, application/javascript, application/xml, application/xml+rss, text/javascript, application/json

(Jun 09 '12 at 08:17) timg ♦♦

Great, thanks, I'll give it a try.

(Jun 09 '12 at 08:59) Duke

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