compresshandler

Go auto compress and decompress handlers for net/http and fasthttp

This package provides a middleware for net/http and fasthttp that auto decompress request body and auto compress response body with prefered client compression. Supports all IANA's initially registred tokens

Restrictions

Server decompressor

According to RFCs there is no 'Accept-Encoding' header at server side response. It means you cannot tell clients (browsers, include headless browsers like curl/python's request) that your server accept compressed requests. But some of the backends (for example mod_deflate) support compressed http requests, thats why the same feature exists in this package.

Encoding support

There is other compression algorithm: LZW and Zstd. But overall score for encoding+transfer+decoding is the same. If you really want to increase content transfer performance, its better to use minification + compression (this package) + http2, rather then jumps between algos, because:

• users does not care which one we use, because only TTI (time to interactive) counts. There is no difference between 0.28sec TTI and 0.30sec TTI
• operation team does not care which one we use, because only total cost of io/cpu/ram counts. There is no win-win algo, who dramatically decrease it from 10k$ into 1k$
• other developers too lazy to enable any non gzip compression/decompression support, because time is money

Usage

net/http

package main

import (
        "io"
        "net/http"

        "github.com/alexdyukov/compresshandler"
)

func main() {
        echo := http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
                b, _ := io.ReadAll(r.Body)
                w.Write(b)
        })

        compressConfig := compresshandler.Config{
                GzipLevel:        compresshandler.GzipDefaultCompression,
                ZlibLevel:        compresshandler.ZlibDefaultCompression,
                BrotliLevel:      compresshandler.BrotliDefaultCompression,
                MinContentLength: 1400,
        }

        compress := compresshandler.NewNetHTTP(compressConfig)

        http.ListenAndServe(":8080", compress(echo))
}

fasthttp

package main

import (
        "github.com/alexdyukov/compresshandler"
        "github.com/valyala/fasthttp"
)

func main() {
        echo := func(ctx *fasthttp.RequestCtx) {
                ctx.SetBody(ctx.Request.Body())
        }

        compressConfig := compresshandler.Config{
                GzipLevel:        compresshandler.GzipDefaultCompression,
                ZlibLevel:        compresshandler.ZlibDefaultCompression,
                BrotliLevel:      compresshandler.BrotliDefaultCompression,
                MinContentLength: 1400,
        }

        compress := compresshandler.NewFastHTTP(compressConfig)

        fasthttp.ListenAndServe(":8080", compress(echo))
}

License

MIT licensed. See the included LICENSE file for details.