gzip proxy query

[Richard Kearsley]

On 17/12/13 13:04, Maxim Dounin wrote:
> 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
>

Many thanks
The behaviour that I want is to keep it compressed so im happy :)