Add liquid tags for GZIP generated files

[rutger1140]

I love the auto generated gzip functionality for css and js files, but have issues linking to the gzipped version of the file. My site runs on Apache.

On Twitter @ixti suggested to use a filter...

{{ app.js | asset_path | append:".gz" }}

... but a tag like this would be more versatile imo.

{% stylesheet style .gz %}

Good somebody work this out?

Cheers

[ixti]

I tend to close this issue in favor of filters. At least in for of {% asset_path foobar .gz %} it seems to add more confusions than solutions. The only acceptable syntax I see is:

{% stylesheet app gzip:true %}

If there would be more requests, or a good use case (I don't see a lot of profit having this as part of the core feature) I'll consider implementing this.

[rutger1140]

Good point. My idea was to get gzipped files running with Amazon Cloudfront, but in the end I could not get it working in a nice workflow. For Amazon AWS/S3 to work, the proper headers need to be set on each file upload separately, whereas nginx/Apache can handle that with a global config, which is way more easy.

Using nginx with success now. Thanks for looking into it.