gzip

Description

The gzip Plugin dynamically sets the behavior of gzip in Nginx.

IMPORTANT

This Plugin requires APISIX to run on APISIX-Base.

Attributes

Name	Type	Required	Default	Valid values	Description
types	array[string] or "*"	False	["text/html"]		Dynamically sets the gzip_types directive. Special value "*" matches any MIME type.
min_length	integer	False	20	>= 1	Dynamically sets the gzip_min_length directive.
comp_level	integer	False	1	[1, 9]	Dynamically sets the gzip_comp_level directive.
http_version	number	False	1.1	1.1, 1.0	Dynamically sets the gzip_http_version directive.
buffers.number	integer	False	32	>= 1	Dynamically sets the gzip_buffers directive.
buffers.size	integer	False	4096	>= 1	Dynamically sets the gzip_buffers directive.
vary	boolean	False	false		Dynamically sets the gzip_vary directive.

Enabling the Plugin

The example below enables the gzip Plugin on the specified Route:

curl -i http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1  -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/index.html",
    "plugins": {
        "gzip": {
            "buffers": {
                "number": 8
            }
        }
    },
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'

Example usage

Once you have configured the Plugin as shown above, you can make a request as shown below:

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/index.html -i -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip"

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 03:52:55 GMT
Server: APISIX/2.7
Content-Encoding: gzip

Warning: Binary output can mess up your terminal. Use "--output -" to tell
Warning: curl to output it to your terminal anyway, or consider "--output
Warning: <FILE>" to save to a file.

Disable Plugin

To disable the gzip Plugin, you can delete the corresponding JSON configuration from the Plugin configuration. APISIX will automatically reload and you do not have to restart for this to take effect.

curl http://127.0.0.1:9080/apisix/admin/routes/1  -H 'X-API-KEY: edd1c9f034335f136f87ad84b625c8f1' -X PUT -d '
{
    "uri": "/index.html",
    "upstream": {
        "type": "roundrobin",
        "nodes": {
            "127.0.0.1:1980": 1
        }
    }
}'