No gzip compression for HTTP status code 202

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 05:56:00AM -0500, hpuac wrote:

> I noticed that the ngx_http_gzip_module is not compressing the response body
> if the HTTP response status code is 202 (Accepted).
> After having a look at the code, it looks like the filter is only active if
> the status code is 200, 403 or 404.
> (
> https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/browser/nginx/src/http/modules/ngx_http_gzip_filter_module.c#L249
> )
> Is there any particular reason to not compress other status codes?
> And if not, could we adjust this logic to also compress others, for example
> everything except 204 (No Content)?

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