[ANNOUNCE] gunzip filter module

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

I'm pleased to announce gunzip filter module.

This module allows gunzipping responses returned with 
Content-Encoding: gzip for clients that doesn't support it.  It 
may be usefull if you prefer to store data compressed (to save 
space or disk/network IO) but do not want to penalize clients 
without gzip support.

Using it should be as simple as:

    location /store/ {
        gunzip on;
        proxy_pass http://backend-which-returns-gzipped-content;
    }

Note well: only responses with Content-Encoding set to gzip before 
this module are handled (e.g. using "add_header Content-Encoding 
gzip;" isn't enough as it happens after).  As of now only proxy 
and fastcgi are able to do so out of the box.  With the following 
patches

http://nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2009-December/000055.html
http://nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2009-December/000064.html
http://nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-devel/2009-December/000065.html

it will be able to work with perl, static files and memcached 
respectively.

This module was designed to work with nginx 0.8.* (though it 
should work with 0.7.* too).

You may browse source code repository here:

http://mdounin.ru/hg/ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module/

Download is here:

http://mdounin.ru/files/ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module-0.1.tar.gz

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Maxim Dounin