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rockstardev
rockstardev

Reputation: 13537

Calculate size of JSON Data Endpoint?

I am making a call to an endpoint that returns JSON. When I save the data to a file, the total size is 500 Kilobytes. What I wanted to do was to compress the JSON, but I heard by just enabling compression on the web server (Apache), I will accomplish the same thing. Now I have done that, and enabled compression. But how do I get the size of the DOWNLOAD, and not the size of the file if I save it?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 129

Answers (1)

benhorgen
benhorgen

Reputation: 1965

It's not quite as simple as just enabling compression on the web server. The HTTP request received by the server must include the Accept-Encoding header to indicate which compression scheme or schemes it support.

The most common is: Accept-Encoding: gzip.

You'd likely need to use a packet sniffer (fiddler or equivalent) to determine the difference in payload sizes when compressed versus decompressed. Most HTTP libraries I am aware of decompress the payload before passing it back to the calling code.

Upvotes: 1

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