Configure > Compress Directives
The compress handler performs on-the-fly compression - it compresses the contents of an HTTP response as it is being sent, if the client indicates itself to be capable of decompressing the response transparently with the use of Accept-Encoding header, and if the response is deemed compressible according to the following rules.
If x-compress-hint response header does not exist or the value is auto, then whether if the response is considered compressible depends on the is_compressible attribute assigned to the content type (see file.mime.addtypes).
If x-compress-hint response header exists and the value is on, the response is always considered to be compressible.
If the value of the response header is set to off, then the response never gets compressed.
The following are the configuration directives recognized by the handler.
"compress"
- Description:
-
Enables on-the-fly compression of HTTP response.
If the argument is
ON, both brotli and gzip compression are enabled. If the argument isOFF, on-the-fly compression is disabled. If the argument is a sequence, the elements are the list of compression algorithms to be enabled. If the argument is a mapping, each key specifies the compression algorithm to be enabled, and the values specify the quality of the algorithms.When both brotli and gzip are enabled and if the client supports both, H2O is hard-coded to prefer brotli.
Example. Enabling on-the-fly compression# enable all algorithms compress: ON # enable by name compress: [ gzip, br ] # enable gzip only compress: [ gzip ] - Level:
- global, host, path, extension
- Default:
compress: OFF
- See also:
file.send-compressed,file.mime.addtypes
"compress-minimum-size"
- Description:
-
Defines the minimum size a files needs to have in order for H2O to compress the request.
- Level:
- global, host, path, extension
- Default:
compress-minimum-size: 100