When running NGINX as a reverse proxy (e.g. in front of an application server) I know how to switch on gzip/deflate from the documentation.
What I am looking for is a *transparent* compression by NGINX, i.e. the proxied application server should be unaware that the original client request was asking for a compressed response [1]. That way I want to ensure that compression is always performd by NGINX rather that the proxied application server or a Microservice framework. What I expect is that NGINX applies compression more efficiently than the JAVA backend. So I have 2 questions: (1) Is my assumption correct that the NGINX reverse proxy compresses more efficiently (in terms of Speed and CPU load) than the proxied JAVA-based backend service? (2) How do I enable transparent compression, i.e. mask [1] from the proxied request so that the application server never attempts response compression and always lets NGINX perform that task? Thanks, Matthias [1]: Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate _______________________________________________ nginx mailing list nginx@nginx.org http://mailman.nginx.org/mailman/listinfo/nginx
