Re: Using gzip-static with httpd location

Le 10/03/2023 à 16:41, Marcus MERIGHI a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> joel@carnat.net (Joel Carnat), 2023.03.10 (Fri) 02:31 (CET):
>> I just tried applying gzip compression on a simple test web site using httpd
>> and the gzip-static option ; using OpenBSD 7.2/amd64.
>>
>> As I understood the man page, gzip-static is supposed to be used inside the
>> server block ; like listen, errdocs or tls. But doing so does not seem to
>> enable gzip compression for files defined in a location block.
>
> You have to provide the .gz file manually.
> httpd(8) does not create the gzip file content on the fly.
>
> This thread:
>
> https://marc.info/?t=163603231000004
>
> from when the feature was added, starts with the OP saying:
>
> In other words, if a client support gzip compression, when
> "file" is requested, httpd will check if "file.gz" is avaiable
> to serve.

Well, the .gz file does exist.
And I can switch from working state to non-working state by just moving
the gzip-static option from inside the location section to outside of it
(still inside the server section).

> Also, from httpd.conf(5):
>
> Enable static gzip compression to save bandwidth.
> If gzip encoding is accepted and if the requested file exists
> with an additional .gz suffix, use the compressed file instead
> and deliver it with content encoding gzip.
>
> Marcus