Module ngx_http_gunzip_module

Example Configuration Directives gunzip gunzip_buffers

The ngx_http_gunzip_module module is a filter that decompresses responses with “ Content-Encoding: gzip ” for clients that do not support “gzip” encoding method. The module will be useful when it is desirable to store data compressed to save space and reduce I/O costs. This module is not built by default, it should be enabled with the --with-http_gunzip_module configuration parameter.

Example Configuration

location /storage/ { gunzip on; Enables or disables decompression of gzipped responses for clients that lack gzip support. If enabled, the following directives are also taken into account when determining if clients support gzip: gzip_http_version , gzip_proxied , and gzip_disable . See also the gzip_vary directive. Syntax: gunzip_buffers number size ;