traefik/docs/content/middlewares/http/compress.md

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Traefik Compress Documentation	Traefik Proxy's HTTP middleware lets you compress responses before sending them to the client. Read the technical documentation.

Compress

Compress Allows Compressing Responses before Sending them to the Client {: .subtitle }

The Compress middleware supports Gzip, Brotli and Zstandard compression. The activation of compression, and the compression method choice rely (among other things) on the request's Accept-Encoding header.

Configuration Examples

# Enable compression
labels:
  - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress=true"

# Enable compression
apiVersion: traefik.io/v1alpha1
kind: Middleware
metadata:
  name: test-compress
spec:
  compress: {}

# Enable compression
- "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress=true"

# Enable compression
http:
  middlewares:
    test-compress:
      compress: {}

# Enable compression
[http.middlewares]
  [http.middlewares.test-compress.compress]

!!! info

Responses are compressed when the following criteria are all met:

* The `Accept-Encoding` request header contains `gzip`, and/or `*`, and/or `br`, and/or `zstd` with or without [quality values](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Quality_values).
If the `Accept-Encoding` request header is absent and no [defaultEncoding](#defaultencoding) is configured, the response won't be encoded.
If it is present, but its value is the empty string, then compression is disabled.
* The response is not already compressed, i.e. the `Content-Encoding` response header is not already set.
* The response`Content-Type` header is not one among the [excludedContentTypes options](#excludedcontenttypes), or is one among the [includedContentTypes options](#includedcontenttypes).
* The response body is larger than the [configured minimum amount of bytes](#minresponsebodybytes) (default is `1024`).

Configuration Options

excludedContentTypes

Optional, Default=""

excludedContentTypes specifies a list of content types to compare the Content-Type header of the incoming requests and responses before compressing.

The responses with content types defined in excludedContentTypes are not compressed.

Content types are compared in a case-insensitive, whitespace-ignored manner.

!!! info

The `excludedContentTypes` and `includedContentTypes` options are mutually exclusive.

!!! info "In the case of gzip"

If the `Content-Type` header is not defined, or empty, the compress middleware will automatically [detect](https://mimesniff.spec.whatwg.org/) a content type.
It will also set the `Content-Type` header according to the detected MIME type.

!!! info "gRPC"

Note that `application/grpc` is never compressed.

labels:
  - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress.excludedcontenttypes=text/event-stream"

apiVersion: traefik.io/v1alpha1
kind: Middleware
metadata:
  name: test-compress
spec:
  compress:
    excludedContentTypes:
      - text/event-stream

- "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress.excludedcontenttypes=text/event-stream"

http:
  middlewares:
    test-compress:
      compress:
        excludedContentTypes:
          - text/event-stream

[http.middlewares]
  [http.middlewares.test-compress.compress]
    excludedContentTypes = ["text/event-stream"]

includedContentTypes

Optional, Default=""

includedContentTypes specifies a list of content types to compare the Content-Type header of the responses before compressing.

The responses with content types defined in includedContentTypes are compressed.

Content types are compared in a case-insensitive, whitespace-ignored manner.

!!! info

The `excludedContentTypes` and `includedContentTypes` options are mutually exclusive.

labels:
  - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress.includedcontenttypes=application/json,text/html,text/plain"

apiVersion: traefik.io/v1alpha1
kind: Middleware
metadata:
  name: test-compress
spec:
  compress:
    includedContentTypes:
      - application/json
      - text/html
      - text/plain

- "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress.includedcontenttypes=application/json,text/html,text/plain"

http:
  middlewares:
    test-compress:
      compress:
        includedContentTypes:
          - application/json
          - text/html
          - text/plain

[http.middlewares]
  [http.middlewares.test-compress.compress]
    includedContentTypes = ["application/json","text/html","text/plain"]

minResponseBodyBytes

Optional, Default=1024

minResponseBodyBytes specifies the minimum amount of bytes a response body must have to be compressed.

Responses smaller than the specified values will not be compressed.

labels:
  - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress.minresponsebodybytes=1200"

apiVersion: traefik.io/v1alpha1
kind: Middleware
metadata:
  name: test-compress
spec:
  compress:
    minResponseBodyBytes: 1200

- "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress.minresponsebodybytes=1200"

http:
  middlewares:
    test-compress:
      compress:
        minResponseBodyBytes: 1200

[http.middlewares]
  [http.middlewares.test-compress.compress]
    minResponseBodyBytes = 1200

defaultEncoding

Optional, Default=""

defaultEncoding specifies the default encoding if the Accept-Encoding header is not in the request or contains a wildcard (*).

There is no fallback on the defaultEncoding when the header value is empty or unsupported.

labels:
  - "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress.defaultEncoding=gzip"

apiVersion: traefik.io/v1alpha1
kind: Middleware
metadata:
  name: test-compress
spec:
  compress:
    defaultEncoding: gzip

- "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress.defaultEncoding=gzip"

http:
  middlewares:
    test-compress:
      compress:
        defaultEncoding: gzip

[http.middlewares]
  [http.middlewares.test-compress.compress]
    defaultEncoding = "gzip"