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Compression in HTTP

Revision 1109471 by teoli on August 25, 2016 at 1:31:13 AM PDT

Revision 1109553 by teoli on August 25, 2016 at 3:19:21 AM PDT

Title:

Compression in HTTP

Slug:

Web/HTTP/Compression

Tags:

"Content Negotiation" "Guide" "HTTP"

Content:

+    <p>
+      For configuring Apache to support compression uses <a href=
+"http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_deflate.html">mod_d
+eflate</a>; for nginx, uses <a href="http://nginx.org/en/docs/htt
+p/ngx_http_gzip_module.html">ngx_http_gzip_module</a>; for IIS, t
+he <code><a href="https://www.iis.net/configreference/system.webs
+erver/httpcompression">&lt;httpCompression&gt;</a></code> element
+>
+    </p>
+    <p>
+      Note that using {{HTTPHeader("Transfer-Encoding")}} and com
+pression at the hop level is so rare that most servers, like Apac
+he, nginx, or IIS, have no easy way to configure it. Such configu
+ration usually happen at the proxy level.
+    </p>

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