ngx_brotli
Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data
using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding
and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best
currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed
with deflate but offers more dense compression.
ngx_brotli is a set of two nginx modules:
- ngx_brotli filter module - used to compress responses on-the-fly,
- ngx_brotli static module - used to serve pre-compressed files.
Table of Contents
Status
Both Brotli library and nginx module are under active development.
Installation
$ cd nginx-1.x.x
$ ./configure --add-module=/path/to/ngx_brotli
$ make && make install
Configuration directives
brotli_static
- syntax:
brotli_static on, off, always - default:
off - context:
http,server,location
Enables or disables checking of the existence of pre-compressed files with.br
extension. With the always value, pre-compressed file is used in all cases,
without checking if the client supports it.
brotli
- syntax:
brotli on, off - default:
off - context:
http,server,location,if
Enables or disables on-the-fly compression of responses.
brotli_types
- syntax:
brotli_types <mime_type> [..] - default:
text/html - context:
http,server,location
Enables on-the-fly compression of responses for the specified MIME types
in addition to text/html. The special value * matches any MIME type.
Responses with the text/html MIME type are always compressed.
brotli_buffers
- syntax:
brotli_buffers <number> <size> - default:
32 4k, 16 8k - context:
http,server,location
Deprecated, ignored.
brotli_comp_level
- syntax:
brotli_comp_level <level> - default:
6 - context:
http,server,location
Sets on-the-fly compression Brotli quality (compression) level.
Acceptable values are in the range from 0 to 11.
brotli_window
- syntax:
brotli_window <size> - default:
512k - context:
http,server,location
Sets Brotli window size. Acceptable values are 1k, 2k, 4k, 8k, 16k,
32k, 64k, 128k, 256k, 512k, 1m, 2m, 4m, 8m and 16m.
brotli_min_length
- syntax:
brotli_min_length <length> - default:
20 - context:
http,server,location
Sets the minimum length of a response that will be compressed.
The length is determined only from the Content-Length response header field.
Variables
$brotli_ratio
Achieved compression ratio, computed as the ratio between the original
and compressed response sizes.
Contributing
See Contributing.
License
Copyright (C) 2002-2015 Igor Sysoev
Copyright (C) 2011-2015 Nginx, Inc.
Copyright (C) 2015 Google Inc.
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:
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