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[chrisdl]

My JS/CSS assets (which are served off of CloudFront are not being Gzipped). I am pushing the assets to S3 using:

class OptimizedCachedS3BotoStorage(FolderNameHackMixin, OptimizedFilesMixin, CachedFilesMixin, S3BotoStorage):

I've been reading up on it a bit, and it seems that if you need to gzip it before your push to cloudfront, remove the .gz part and set the content type to gzip on the asset in S3. This should obviously be handled automatically, but it seems crazy that the collectstatic pushing it to S3 doesn't handle it automatically. Any thoughts about how to integrate it or what setting is needed for this?

[etianen]

Just set AWS_IS_GZIPPED = True in your settings.py. It's a feature of django-storages.

Happy coding!

On 9 Apr 2014, at 19:44, Chris notifications@github.com wrote:

My JS/CSS assets (which are served off of CloudFront are not being Gzipped). I am pushing the assets to S3 using:

class OptimizedCachedS3BotoStorage(FolderNameHackMixin, OptimizedFilesMixin, CachedFilesMixin, S3BotoStorage):
I've been reading up on it a bit, and it seems that if you need to gzip it before your push to cloudfront, remove the .gz part and set the content type to gzip on the asset in S3. This should obviously be handled automatically, but it seems crazy that the collectstatic pushing it to S3 doesn't handle it automatically. Any thoughts about how to integrate it or what setting is needed for this?

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[chrisdl]

That's crazy that I haven't seen that! My move was this (which I saw somewhere else)

GZIP_CONTENT_TYPES = (
    'text/css',
    'application/javascript',
    'application/x-javascript',
    'text/javascript'
)

I'll try it with one and the other and report back.

[chrisdl]

Your way worked and mine didn't.

adding

AWS_IS_GZIPPED = True

to the settings.py file shaved 86% off the size of the css file! Aka, totally worth the added CPU to unzip it. Thanks for the help.