http_gunzip module

The 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 isn’t built by default; it should be enabled with the ‑‑with‑http_gunzip_module configuration parameter.

Packages in our repositories have this module built.

Example Configuration

location /storage/ {
    gunzip on;
#    ...
}

Directives

gunzip

Syntax:

gunzip on | off;

Default:

gunzip off;

Context:

http, server, location

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.

gunzip_buffers

Syntax:

gunzip_buffers number size;

Default:

gunzip_buffers 32 4k|16 8k;

Context:

http, server, location

Sets the number and size of buffers used to decompress a response. By default, the buffer size is equal to one memory page. This is either 4K or 8K, depending on a platform.