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Revision of ngx_http_gunzip_module documentation.
author | Ruslan Ermilov <ru@nginx.com> |
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date | Tue, 23 Oct 2012 14:45:14 +0000 |
parents | 6d6aa03e43fa |
children | 95c3c3bbf1ce |
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--- a/xml/en/docs/http/ngx_http_gunzip_module.xml +++ b/xml/en/docs/http/ngx_http_gunzip_module.xml @@ -10,17 +10,16 @@ <module name="Module ngx_http_gunzip_module" link="/en/docs/http/ngx_http_gunzip_module.html" lang="en" - rev="1"> + rev="2"> <section id="summary"> <para> The <literal>ngx_http_gunzip_module</literal> module is a filter that -decompresses responses returned with the -“<literal>Content-Encoding: gzip</literal>” for clients that don’t support it. -It may be useful if it is preferred to store the data compressed -(to save space or disk/network IO), but it is undesirable -to penalize clients without the gzip support. +decompresses responses with “<literal>Content-Encoding: gzip</literal>” +for clients that do not support “gzip” encoding method. +The module will be useful when it is desirable to store +data compressed, to save space and reduce I/O costs. </para> <para> @@ -56,7 +55,14 @@ location /storage/ { <context>location</context> <para> -Enables or disables decompression of gzipped responses. +Enables or disables decompression of gzipped responses +for clients that lack gzip support. +If enabled, the following directives are also taken into account +when determining if clients support gzip: +<link doc="ngx_http_gzip_module.xml" id="gzip_http_version"/>, +<link doc="ngx_http_gzip_module.xml" id="gzip_proxied"/>, and +<link doc="ngx_http_gzip_module.xml" id="gzip_disable"/>. +See also the <link doc="ngx_http_gzip_module.xml" id="gzip_vary"/> directive. </para> </directive> @@ -70,7 +76,10 @@ Enables or disables decompression of gzi <context>location</context> <para> -Specifies the number and size of buffers available for decompression. +Sets the <value>number</value> and <value>size</value> of buffers +used to decompress a response. +By default, the buffer size is equal to one memory page. +This is either 4K or 8K, depending on a platform. </para> </directive>