gzip compression not working

[Calomel]

Igor,

Why do you not need to specify "gzip_types"? Is it because he is using
"gzip_proxied any;" ?

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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:31:43PM +0400, Igor Sysoev wrote:
>On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:24:39AM -0500, Christian Billen wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I have a fresh new installation of nginx on ubuntu 8.04 (installed via
>> apt-get, I believe it is 0.5.x something)
>> 
>> In my nginx.conf file I have gzip turned on, now I wanted to do a basic test
>> and serving a static html file, but the file does not come compressed at
>> all.
>> 
>> Here's the snippet of configuration, I tried variations on this without
>> success
>> 
>>  gzip  on;
>>     gzip_min_length  1100;
>>     gzip_buffers     4 8k;
>>     gzip_proxied     any;
>>     gzip_types       text/plain text/html text/css application/x-javascript
>> text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
>>     gzip_http_version 1.1;
>>     gzip_comp_level 6;
>> 
>> Does anyone have any idea why nothing is compressed?
>> 
>> I've used this http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php and others to
>> test the results.
>
>www.gidnetwork.com send HTTP/1.0 request, which is not gzipped because
>of "gzip_http_version 1.1".
>
>Also, you do not need to set gzip_types, those never be issued by nginx:
>
>application/xml, application/xml+rss, text/javascript.
>
>It's CPU cycles waste.
>
>
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>Igor Sysoev
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