New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: Is it bad practice in 2023 to force GZIP compression?
Ask HN: Is it bad practice in 2023 to force GZIP compression?
2 by johnnyApplePRNG | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I have setup an nginx reverse proxy to only ever call for and cache gzipped responses from the upstream server. I have seen some older posts about forcing gzip on all requests but unzipping the pre-compressed content if the client specifically requests non-gzipped content. I am considering not implementing the above sentence for performance reasons. How impactful will essentially ignoring browser gzip preferences affect my user's experience? I am under the impression that only computers running 20+ year old browsers will be affected by the inability to decompress gzipped content. Is there anything else I am not thinking of? Do any clients not enable gzip for a good reason I am not thinking of? Thank you!
2 by johnnyApplePRNG | 1 comments on Hacker News.
I have setup an nginx reverse proxy to only ever call for and cache gzipped responses from the upstream server. I have seen some older posts about forcing gzip on all requests but unzipping the pre-compressed content if the client specifically requests non-gzipped content. I am considering not implementing the above sentence for performance reasons. How impactful will essentially ignoring browser gzip preferences affect my user's experience? I am under the impression that only computers running 20+ year old browsers will be affected by the inability to decompress gzipped content. Is there anything else I am not thinking of? Do any clients not enable gzip for a good reason I am not thinking of? Thank you!
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