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<a class="link" href="http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/javadoc/9.3.28.v20191105/org/eclipse/jetty/server/handler/gzip/GzipHandler.html" target="_top">http://www.eclipse.org/jetty/javadoc/9.3.28.v20191105/org/eclipse/jetty/server/handler/gzip/GzipHandler.html</a></li></ul></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="gzip-filter-usage"></a>Usage</h3></div></div></div><p>The Jetty <code class="literal">GzipHandler</code> is a compression handler that you can apply to any dynamic resource (servlet).
It fixes many of the bugs in commonly available compression filters: it works with asynchronous servlets; it handles all ways to set content length.
It has been tested with Jetty continuations and suspending requests.
Some user-agents might be excluded from compression to avoid common browser bugs (yes, this means IE!).</p><p>The <code class="literal">GzipHandler</code> is added to the entire server by the <code class="literal">etc/jetty-gzip.xml</code> file from the <code class="literal">gzip.mod</code> module.
It may also be added to individual contexts in a context xml file.</p><div class="blockquote"><blockquote class="blockquote"><div xmlns:jfetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.JavaSourceFetchExtension" xmlns:fetch="java:org.eclipse.jetty.xslt.tools.SourceFetchExtension" xmlns:d="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:l="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/xmlns/l10n/1.0" xmlns:xslthl="http://xslthl.sf.net" xmlns:gcse="http://www.google.com" xmlns:date="http://exslt.org/dates-and-times" class="note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title"><i class="fa fa-asterisk" aria-hidden="true"></i> Note</h3><p>Jetty 9 only compresses using GZip.
Using deflate http compression is not supported and will not function.</p></div></blockquote></div></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="gzip-filter-rules"></a>Gzip Rules</h3></div></div></div><p><code class="literal">GzipHandler</code> will gzip the content of a response if:</p><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" style="list-style-type: disc; "><li class="listitem">It is mapped to a matching path</li><li class="listitem">The request method is configured to support gzip</li><li class="listitem">The request is not from an excluded User-Agent</li><li class="listitem">accept-encoding header is set to gzip</li><li class="listitem">The response status code is &gt;=200 and &lt;300</li><li class="listitem">The content length is unknown or more than the minGzipSize initParameter or the minGzipSize is 0(default)</li><li class="listitem">The content-type does not match an excluded mime-type</li><li class="listitem">No content-encoding is specified by the resource</li></ul></div><p>Compressing the content can greatly improve the network bandwidth usage, but at the cost of memory and CPU cycles.
The <a class="link" href="advanced-extras.html#default-servlet" title="Default Servlet">DefaultServlet</a> is capable of serving pre-compressed static content, which saves memory and CPU.
By default, the <code class="literal">GzipHandler</code> will check to see if pre-compressed content exists, and pass the request through to be handled by the <code class="literal">DefaultServlet</code>.</p></div><div class="section"><div class="titlepage"><div><div><h3 class="title"><a name="gzip-filter-init"></a>Gzip Configuration</h3></div></div></div><div class="variablelist"><dl class="variablelist"><dt><span class="term">minGzipSize</span></dt><dd>Content will only be compressed if content length is either unknown or greater than <code class="literal">minGzipSize</code>.</dd><dt><span class="term">checkGzExists</span></dt><dd>True by default.
If set to false, the handler will not check for pre-compressed content.</dd><dt><span class="term">includedMethods</span></dt><dd>List of HTTP methods to compress.
If not set, only <code class="literal">GET</code> requests are compressed.</dd><dt><span class="term">includedMimeTypes</span></dt><dd>List of MIME types to compress.</dd><dt><span class="term">excludedMimeTypes</span></dt><dd>List of MIME types not to compress.</dd><dt><span class="term">excludedAgentPatterns</span></dt><dd>A list of regex patterns for User-Agent names from which requests should not be compressed.</dd><dt><span class="term">excludedPaths</span></dt><dd>List of paths to exclude from compression.
Performs a <code class="literal">String.startsWith(String)</code> comparison to check if the path matches.
If it does match then there is no compression.
To match subpaths use excludePathPatterns instead.</dd><dt><span class="term">includedPaths</span></dt><dd>List of paths to consider for compression.</dd><dt><span class="term">includePaths</span></dt><dd>List of paths to definitely consider for compression.</dd></dl></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript">
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