ngx_http_gunzip_module

Module ngx_http_gunzip_module

The ngx_http_gunzip_module 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.

This module is not built by default, it should be enabled with the --with-http_gunzip_module configuration parameter.

Example Configuration

location /storage/ {
    gunzip on;
    ...
}

Directives

Syntax: gunzip