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Draemon
Asked: 2009-06-21 04:42:27 +0800 CST

HTTP gzip compression not working for css or javascript in tomcat 6

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Connector settings:

<Connector ...
compression="2048"
noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata"
compressionMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/css,text/javascript"/>

This seems to work for html, but not for css or javascript. compression="force" does work, but compression="on" doesn't. compression="2" doesn't work either, so I don't know what "force" is really doing.

The files in question are about 6k, I've cleared the browser cache, etc.

tomcat javascript compression css

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You should use compressableMimeType, not compressionMimeType, so

    <Connector ...
compression="1400"
noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata"
compressableMimeType ="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/css,text/javascript"/>

    Should do the trick.

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  2. http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/http.html

    Please use application/javascript instead of text/javascript, as given below: compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/css,application/javascript"

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