gzipping responses from express

[Ian Petzer]

Hello Ct Noders,

For my Express app, I've switched on the connect middleware for gzip compression using:

app.use(express.compress());

However, it seems to me that the responses are gzipped every time. Does anyone have any advice on how I can gzip my static assets in advance?

Or will the middleware only do it once and cache this for me.

I'm struggling to find info on this on the net. 

See you all later this eve!

Ian

 

[Adrian Rossouw]

i serve everything through nginx, and do the caching configuration on that level.

it is a lot more straight forward to me than sticking all that stuff into my 

application code for me.

[Rudolf Meijering]

The source code is here: 

https://github.com/senchalabs/connect/blob/master/lib/middleware/compress.js

As you can see, no caching. The static middleware, however will probably cache the compressed response, once again, the source code is the best documentation. Just make sure of the order of your middleware.

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