On 3/9/23 17:31, Joel Carnat wrote:
Hi,
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.
What fails:
server "default" {
listen on 127.0.0.1 port 80
gzip-static
block drop
location "/.well-known/acme-challenge/*" {
root "/acme"
request strip 2
pass
}
location "/www/*" {
root "/test"
request strip 1
pass
}
}
What works:
server "default" {
listen on 127.0.0.1 port 80
block drop
location "/.well-known/acme-challenge/*" {
root "/acme"
request strip 2
pass
}
location "/www/*" {
gzip-static
root "/test"
request strip 1
pass
}
}
As you may see, what works is using gzip-static inside a location
block and not outside. I've tested is using Firefox, curl and
https://gtmetrix.com. All confirm gzip-static must be inside the
location block to provide compressed resources.
Here's an example of the curl command I used:
# curl -I --compressed http://localhost:80/www/index.html
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 1083
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 01:27:53 GMT
Last-Modified: Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:53:26 GMT
Server: OpenBSD httpd
Is this an expected behaviour?
Regards,
Joel C.
Can confirm - I recently stumbled over this confusing behaviour as well.
Curious if this is a bug or a man page issue.
Regards,
Jordan
