serve web application content as gzip- compressed

[massoo]

hi

Is it possible to serve web application content in compressed format just like how we use mod_gzip with apache ie, My intention is to use any available, compatible and proven compression methods which can work with JBoss.

I have an envrionment where jboss talks to apache through mod_jk. So I need to have a compression mechnism which not only support JBoss but also the combination of JBoss with Apache which uses apache, mod_jk and JBoss as a solution stack.

I need a solution / mechanism where i can compress responses from my JBoss app server and send it.

regards
shann

[peterj]

Try setting the 'compression' attribute for the http connector in deploy/jbossweb-tomcat55.sar/server.xml.

Something like this:

<Connector port="8080" address="${jboss.bind.address}"
 maxThreads="250" strategy="ms" maxHttpHeaderSize="8192"
 emptySessionPath="true"
 enableLookups="false" redirectPort="8443" acceptCount="100"
 connectionTimeout="20000" disableUploadTimeout="true"
 compression="on" />

For documentation on the server.xml file, see the Tomcat docs at http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/http.html

[massoo]

hi,

thanks for the tip. how about using this compression filter ?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pjl-comp-filter/

shann

[renen]

To get compression to work as you would expect it, I think that you probably also want to add the following attribute-value pair:

compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/javascript,application/x-javascript,application/javascript,text/css"

as the list of default mime types is quite small (see http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/http.html).