GunZIP

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.

When building from the source code, this module isn’t built by default; it should be enabled with the ‑‑with‑http_gunzip_module build option.

In packages and images from our repos, the module is included in the build.

Configuration Example

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.