How to turn off gzip compression for SSL traffic

[Bob S.]

I thought that "if" statements slowed nginx down?


On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 6:27 AM, howard chen <howachen at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for the insight.
>
> Finally I solved by:
>
> if ($scheme = https) {
>     gzip off;
> }
>
> Separating into two servers require to duplicate the rules like rewrite,
> which is cumbersome.
>
> Thanks anyway
>
>
>
>
>  On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 8:43 PM, Igor Sysoev <igor at sysoev.ru> wrote:
>
>>  On Aug 17, 2013, at 8:59 , howard chen wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> As you know, due the breach attack (http://breachattack.com), HTTP
>> compression is no longer safe (I assume nginx don't use SSL compression by
>> default?), so we should disable it.
>>
>>
>> Yes, modern nginx versions do not use SSL compression.
>>
>> Now, We are using config like the following:
>>
>>     gzip on;
>>     ..
>>
>>     server {
>>         listen 127.0.0.1:80 <http://127.0.0.1/> default_server;
>>         listen 127.0.0.1:443 default_server ssl;
>>
>>
>>
>> With the need to split into two servers section, is it possible to turn
>> off gzip when we are using SSL?
>>
>>
>> You have to split the dual mode server section into two server server
>> sections and set "gzip off"
>> SSL-enabled on. There is no way to disable gzip in dual mode server
>> section, but if you really
>> worry about security in general the server sections should be different.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Igor Sysoev
>> http://nginx.com/services.html
>>
>>
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