gzip proxy query

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:58:43PM +0000, Richard Kearsley wrote:

> Hi
> If 'gzip off;' on front-end but a proxy_pass to backend gives a gzipped
> response, will the front-end decompress it before proxy to client?

No.

But if you want nginx to decompress responses, there is gunzip 
module which can do it for you.

http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_gunzip_module.html

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Maxim Dounin
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