Support Content-Encoding header (compression)

[ethanaobrien]

Less data is transferred (send dependency will need to be removed first)

for gzip I have found this works

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Content-Encoding

[terreng]

This sounds great! Just make sure to check the Accept-Encoding request header to only use encoding with supported browsers.

[terreng]

I've added the HTTP compression option to the UI and the documentation (and renamed the option to compression). I made a slight change to handlers.js.

Unfortunately, now that I am trying it out, I'm finding that it's unbearably slow. Even on my machine. Is there any way to speed this up? Otherwise I don't think we should ship this feature. Maybe once we are using Tauri and running a more native web server it'll perform better.

[ethanaobrien]

Yeah it is really really slow, theres nothing we can do to speed it up. It's your choice whether we include this feature.

[terreng]

I've removed the option from the UI and documentation, but it's still accessible by manually editing config.json. We can revisit this option later, but I'm closing this issue for now.