Loading Gzipped version css/js in the document about assets HOT 2 CLOSED

Since I requested this feature....

This is an NGINX feature. If it receives a request for file.css, and it would send a compressed version of this file, then it looks in the filesystem for a pre-compressed version file.css.gz.

If the file is found, it will send this, rather than compressing file.css.

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As Greg mentioned, this is a feature of the browser and the webserver, not the assets library itself.

In a nutshell: Some webservers, if properly configured, before serving a file some.file to a client that has included the Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate in the request headers, will first look if the file some.file.gz exists. If it does, then the file some.file.gz is returned in the response along a Content-Encoding: gzip,deflate response header. If the file does not exist, then some.file will be returned instead.

The assets library just creates the file for your, but how it used depends on the browser and the webserver.

More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_compression

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