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Saravanan Ramupillai
Saravanan Ramupillai

Reputation: 757

Disable unzipping the zipped response in Ngnix

I have 5 micro-services that are up and running. One of them is an nginx server that acts as a gateway( reverse proxy for other services). There is another service called 'web' that is an nginx server that serves all the client side static bundles. I have enabled gzipping in the web nginx server. But when the compressed response comes through the gateway nginx server, it decompresses the files and sends them back to the client. I tried setting gzip off and gunzip off in gateway nginx server but it is not working.

Here is the configuration of the web-nginx server:

gzip on;
gzip_comp_level 3;
gzip_disable "MSIE [1-6]\.(?!.*SV1)";
gzip_min_length  100;
gzip_buffers  4 32k;

Here is the configuration for the gateway ngnix server:

gzip off;
gunzip off;

Any kind of help is appreciated.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 828

Answers (2)

Saravanan Ramupillai
Saravanan Ramupillai

Reputation: 757

I found the mistake that, i failed to forward the header using proxy_pass from proxy server to actual server. With help of above answer. it worked.

Upvotes: 0

Bharathvaj Ganesan
Bharathvaj Ganesan

Reputation: 3194

You need to add gzip_proxied any; to the backend nginx servers (serving static files)

Compress data even for clients that are connecting to us via proxies, identified by the "Via" header (required for CloudFront/Cloudflare).

The default value is off which disables compression for all proxied requests, ignoring other parameters; For more info checkout the nginx docs

Upvotes: 2

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