gzip filter on streaming responses

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 02:32:44PM -0700, John Watson wrote:

> I did some investigation and the gzip filter will only activate if there
> is a Content-Length header with valid length.

This is not true.  With Content-Length present gzip filter is able 
to more effectively allocate buffers (or skip responses as per 
gzip_min_length), but it isn't limited to responses with 
Content-Length present.

> Is there any way of deflating streaming responses from the nginx push
> stream module? Where is there isn't a  known content length, but
> potential for thousands of messages to be transferred?

As long as push stream module does things correctly it should 
work, but that's the question more about (3rd party) push stream 
module, not gzip filter.


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