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Gunzip: add more tests and improve docs.
author Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru>
date Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:55:31 +0300
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1 Gunzip module for nginx. 1 Gunzip module for nginx.
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3 This module allows ungzipping responses returned with Content-Encoding: gzip 3 This module allows gunzipping responses returned with Content-Encoding: gzip
4 for clients that doesn't support it. It may be usefull if you prefer to store 4 for clients that doesn't support it. It may be usefull if you prefer to store
5 data compressed (to save space or disk/network IO) but do not want to penalize 5 data compressed (to save space or disk/network IO) but do not want to penalize
6 clients without gzip support. 6 clients without gzip support.
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8 Note well: only responses with Content-Encoding set to gzip before this module
9 are handled (e.g. using "add_header Content-Encoding gzip;" isn't enough as it
10 happens after). As of now only proxy and fastcgi are able to do so.
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12 This module was designed to work with nginx 0.8.* (though it should work with
13 0.7.* too).
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8 Configuration directives: 15 Configuration directives:
9 16
10 gunzip (on|off) 17 gunzip (on|off)
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23 30
24 Usage: 31 Usage:
25 32
26 location /storage/ { 33 location /storage/ {
27 gunzip on; 34 gunzip on;
35 ...
28 } 36 }
29 37
30 To compile nginx with gunzip module, use "--add-module <path>" option to nginx 38 To compile nginx with gunzip module, use "--add-module <path>" option to nginx
31 configure. 39 configure.