nginx gzip_static not following gzip_types

[Igor Sysoev]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 02:36:07AM -0400, ctrlbrk wrote:
> Thanks for the quick reply.  It would be nice if there was a simple top
> level directive added to make it follow the gzip_types rule.  The
> default behavior of trying to compress images is pretty futile.  Even if
> I had my bash script compress images to serve up, the extra
> decompression time on the client would cause the page to be slower, and
> bandwidth savings of probably less than 1% at expense of much, much more
> than 1% increased client CPU.

location /images/ {
    gzip_static  off;
    ...
}


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Igor Sysoev