Serving compressed API response

[Yash Ganthe]

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I have this in my app.js: app.configure(function() { app.use(express.cookieParser()); app.use(express.bodyParser()); app.use(express.session({ secret: 'supersecretkeygoeshere', store: new MySQLStore(options), //cookie: {maxAge: 1000} })); app.use(passport.initialize()); app.use(passport.session()); app.set('views', path.join(__dirname, 'public')); app.use(express.favicon()); app.use(express.json()); app.use(express.urlencoded()); app.use(express.methodOverride()); app.use(app.router); app.use(express.compress()); Apart from serving static files, I serve an API such as: app.get('/api/myfun', function(req, res) { res.json('Lot of data'); }); The static files get served with Content-Encoding property value as gzip. When I observe the reponse of the API in the browser, the Content-Encoding property is not "gzip". What do I need to do so that the API is also served in gzip format? Thanks

[Rohit Singh]

if you are using a application server something like nginx above your webserver, its best to handle compression in that.

compression also depends on whether the client can handle request compression, that is indicated in request headers so you can start checking there.

at last, the request compression also depends on settings, where a response body above a particular size only gets compressed.

you can read more here .

Hope that helps.

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