How to use gzip

[nonameplum]

Hi,

I think that I missed something becouse when I set gzip: true then my gzipped javascript is not readable for browser

SyntaxError: illegal character

I can see that resulted *.cgz files are without gzip content type header. I tried to add by myself but without success):

function endsWith(str, suffix) {
    return str.indexOf(suffix, str.length - suffix.length) !== -1;
}

app.use(function (req, res, next) {
    if(endsWith(req.url, '.cgz')) {
        res.setHeader("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
    }
    return next();
});

[nonameplum]

I repair a little my code:

app.use(function (req, res, next) {
    var acceptEncoding = req.get('Accept-Encoding');
    var isGzip = false;
    if (acceptEncoding && (acceptEncoding.indexOf("gzip") > -1)) {
        isGzip = true;
    }

    if (isGzip &&
        (endsWith(req.url, '.cgz') || endsWith(req.url, '.jgz'))) {
        console.log(req.url);
        res.set("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
    }
    next();
});

For javascript its is working but for css is not. Css is gzipped but not recognized by browser.

[craigspaeth]

Hmm, at Artsy we upload the generated gzip files to S3 and set Content-Encoding=gzip & Content-Type=text/css in our deploy script. Maybe it's just a matter of setting Content-Type. For serving gzip files directly from the Node server you might want to look into another module such as https://github.com/nateps/connect-gzip. Hopefully that helps. Let me know if you come across any good solutions :)