gzip compression not working

[Igor Sysoev]

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 01:03:40PM -0500, Christian Billen wrote:

> This is my revised setting, I had to set proxy_set_header for it to
> compress, not sure what it does or why.

proxy_set_header    Accept-Encoding  "";

disables this header when request is proxied to backend.
However, any proxy_set_header in a locaiton resets proxy_set_header
inherited from previous level, therefore you should add it in these
locaitons instead of global level.

> As for the gzip types, shouldn't text/javascript be compressed? should we
> add it to the mime types?

There are no text/javascript MIME-type. At least in Apache configuration
files.

> Thank you
> 
>     gzip  on;
>     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_comp_level  4;
>     gzip_http_version   1.0;
>     proxy_set_header    Accept-Encoding  "";
> 
> 
> On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 12:51 PM, Christian Billen <cbillen at warmlyyours.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi guys, ok just removing the file size did work...and the http test as
> > well.  Now should I be concerned with gzip_http at all? what is going to
> > give me compression for most clients out there?
> > Thanks for the tip on the types as well.
> >
> > Christian
> >
> >
> > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Calomel <nginxlist at calomel.org> wrote:
> >
> >> Christian,
> >>
> >> Is the test file you are testing larger than 1100 bytes and one of the
> >> formates you listed in gzip_types?
> >>
> >> If you have curl (linux, BSD, ect.) installed you can do your own
> >> header tests with:  curl -I --compressed http://localhost
> >>
> >>  Nginx "how to"
> >>  https://calomel.org/nginx.html
> >>
> >> --
> >>  Calomel @ https://calomel.org
> >>  Open Source Research and Reference
> >>
> >>
> >> 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 [1]http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php and
> >> others
> >> >   to test the results.
> >> >   Thank you so much!
> >> >
> >> >References
> >> >
> >> >   Visible links
> >> >   1. http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> >
> >
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> 
> Christian Billen
> Director of IT
> Warmlyyours.com, inc.
> 
> Phone: (800) 875-5285 ext.800
> Fax: (847) 550-2600
> Email: cbillen at warmlyyours.com
> 
> WarmlyYours
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