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Compress

Compressing the Response before Sending it to the Client

The Compress middleware enables the gzip compression.

Configuration Examples

Docker

# Enable gzip compression
labels:
- "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress=true"

Kubernetes

# Enable gzip compression
apiVersion: traefik.containo.us/v1alpha1
kind: Middleware
metadata:
  name: test-compress
spec:
  compress: {}

Marathon

"labels": {
  "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress": "true"
}

Rancher

# Enable gzip compression
labels:
- "traefik.http.middlewares.test-compress.compress=true"

File (TOML)

# Enable gzip compression
[http.middlewares]
  [http.middlewares.test-compress.compress]

File (YAML)

# Enable gzip compression
http:
  middlewares:
    test-compress:
      compress: {}

Notes

Responses are compressed when:

• The response body is larger than 512 bytes.
• The Accept-Encoding request header contains gzip.
• The response is not already compressed, i.e. the Content-Encoding response header is not already set.