httpgzip

README

http.Handler wrapper enabling on-the-fly gzip compression for supporting clients.

See https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/artyom/httpgzip

Documentation

Overview

Package httpgzip provides a wrapper to http.Handler that does on the fly gzip encoding if certain conditions are met.

Content is compressed only if client understands it, content size is greater than certain threshold and content type matches predefined list of types.

Index

• func New(h http.Handler, options ...Option) http.Handler
• type Option
  • func WithLevel(level int) Option

Functions

func New

func New(h http.Handler, options ...Option) http.Handler

New returns a http.Handler that optionally compresses response using 'Content-Enconding: gzip' scheme.

Types

type Option

type Option func(*gzipHandler)

Option functions are used to configure new handler.

func WithLevel

func WithLevel(level int) Option

WithLevel configures handler to use specified compression level. It will panic if level is not one of the values accepted by gzip.NewWriterLevel.