Mercurial > hg > ngx_http_gunzip_filter_module
diff README @ 1:0dd7d109e56b
Gunzip: add more tests and improve docs.
author | Maxim Dounin <mdounin@mdounin.ru> |
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date | Sun, 20 Dec 2009 03:55:31 +0300 |
parents | a75d4ad9c5d2 |
children | 93115aab4c92 |
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--- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,10 +1,17 @@ Gunzip module for nginx. -This module allows ungzipping responses returned with Content-Encoding: gzip +This module allows gunzipping responses returned with Content-Encoding: gzip for clients that doesn't support it. It may be usefull if you prefer to store data compressed (to save space or disk/network IO) but do not want to penalize clients without gzip support. +Note well: only responses with Content-Encoding set to gzip before this module +are handled (e.g. using "add_header Content-Encoding gzip;" isn't enough as it +happens after). As of now only proxy and fastcgi are able to do so. + +This module was designed to work with nginx 0.8.* (though it should work with +0.7.* too). + Configuration directives: gunzip (on|off) @@ -25,6 +32,7 @@ Usage: location /storage/ { gunzip on; + ... } To compile nginx with gunzip module, use "--add-module <path>" option to nginx