Configure > Gzip Directives
This document describes the configuration directives of the gzip handler.
"gzip"
- Description:
-
Enables on-the-fly compression of HTTP response.
When set to
ON
, the handler compresses the content sent to the client using the GZIP content-encoding if all of the following conditions are met:- client has announced its capability of decoding gzipped content via
Accept-Encoding
header - content (by checking the content-type) is known to be compressible
When set to
OFF
, the feature is not used.Example. Enabling on-the-fly gzip compressiongzip: ON
- client has announced its capability of decoding gzipped content via
- Level:
- global, host, path, extension
- Default:
gzip: OFF
- See also:
file.send-gzip
,file.mime.addtypes