unable to disable automatic gzip responses

[Sunny]

Hi all,

Version: 1.495 WAR, deployed on Tomcat7 Windows service.

I'm trying to disable the CompressionFilter that is compressing all of Jenkin's responses.

I've found references to a variable org.kohsuke.stapler.compression.CompressionFilter.disabled=true that should have done the job, but on inspecting the HTTP headers in my browser Content-Encoding=gzip always seems to be present. I can verify that the variable is present in both as a Environment Variable and a System Properties in Jenkins.

Gzip is not enabled in Tomcat.

Is there something else that I'm missing?

(I want to disable gzipping the responses to use nginx's HttpSubModule)

thanks,

Sunny

[Walter Kacynski]

Did you verify the HTTP response as opposed to the Request?

[Walter Kacynski]

I have done more testing with this option and I can confirm this behavior that it does not seem possible to disable the gzip response compression.  Does anyone have a solution to this?

https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-14362

Since we use a reverse proxy, I'm considering changing our mod_rewrite rules to strip the Accept-Encoding header to remove gzip as an option.