Allow compression to be disabled in self-hosted about gateway HOT 6 CLOSED

Hi @rojosinalma,

Thanks for reaching out!

The gateway respects the Accept-Encoding header in the request. You can try setting it to identity in your requests to disable compression.

Let me know if you need more help

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Thanks for explaining, but I still don't fully understand how is what you mentioned going to bypass what's hardcoded in the block I posted.

Could you give me more information please?

from gateway.

Hey @rojosinalma - The compress middleware code that you have pointed out is written in a way that it will only do compress if the Accept-Encoding has a compression technique mentioned in it or if the code itself imposes a compress technique. In the case of gateway, we have not mentioned any compression technique, so it will rely on Accept-Encoding header. So if you send Accept-Encoding as identity, then it will not apply any compression on response. I hope this helps.

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The same link that you have shared contains this info: https://hono.dev/middleware/builtin/compress#options

The compression scheme to allow for response compression. Either gzip or deflate. If not defined, both are allowed and will be used based on the Accept-Encoding header. gzip is prioritized if this option is not provided and the client provides both in the Accept-Encoding header.

Here it is mentioned that Accept-Encoding header is used to determine the type of response compression. So if you do not send it, then hono will not compress it.

Regarding the identity value for accept-encoding, its a HTTP standard that is also mentioned in MDN web docs. So you can either remove accept-encoding from request header or send it as identity to inform server to not apply the compression. Ref: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept-Encoding#identity

When you send the header as identity, the code that is written inside hono compress middleware will not find any encoding and gateway also does not pass any default encoding method, so it will skip compressing the response. Here is the code for hono compress middleware: https://github.com/honojs/hono/blob/main/src/middleware/compress/index.ts

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