Details
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Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Not A Problem
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Description
Currently, libprocess decides whether a response should be compressed by the following conditional:
if (response.type == http::Response::BODY &&
response.body.length() >= GZIP_MINIMUM_BODY_LENGTH &&
!headers.contains("Content-Encoding") &&
request.acceptsEncoding("gzip")) {
[...]
However, this implies that a request sent with the header "Accept-Encoding: gzip" can not rely on actually getting a gzipped response, e.g. when the response size is below the threshold:
$ nc localhost 5050
GET /tasks HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 12:49:56 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 12
{"tasks":[]}