gzip

Documentation

Overview

Package gzip provides data compression of HTTP responses for clients that support it.

Index

• func Handler(level int) func(http.Handler) http.Handler

Functions

func Handler

func Handler(level int) func(http.Handler) http.Handler

Handler enables gzip compression of HTTP responses for clients that support it via the 'Accept-Encoding' header. The compression level should be any integer value between `1` (optimal speed) and `9` (optimal compression) inclusive.

Compressing TLS traffic may leak the page contents to an attacker if the page contains user input: http://security.stackexchange.com/a/102015/12208