Sending pre-compressed data via nginx

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Igor Sysoev wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Yusuf Goolamabbas wrote:
>
>> Hi, I wasn't able to figure out if it's possible to send out
>> precompressed (gzipped data) via nginx
>> It just needs to add Content-Encoding: gzip to the response header
>> 
>> I'm looking for something similar to what can be done in lighttpd
>> 
>> http://trac.lighttpd.net/trac/wiki/Docs%3AModSetEnv
>
> Currently it's easy to do only if you can easy separate locations:
>
>     location / {
>         root  /path/to/files;
>     }
>
>     location ~* "(README|ChangeLog|\.txt)\.gz$" {
>         root  /path/to/files;
>
>         add_header  Content-Encoding  gzip;
>
>         # turn off on the fly gzip compression, because
>         # it does not currently check header set by "add_header"
>         gzip off;
>
>         # nginx set type according last suffix only
>         type { text/plain gz }
>     }

It could be also done is such way:

      location / {
          root  /path/to/files;

          ###
          location ~* "(README|ChangeLog|\.txt)\.gz$" {
              add_header  Content-Encoding  gzip;
              gzip off;
              type { text/plain gz; }
          }

          location ~* "\.html\.gz$" {
              add_header  Content-Encoding  gzip;
              gzip off;
              type { text/html gz; }
          }
          ###

      }

The text between ### could be include'd from file and used in several
locations.


Igor Sysoev
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