gzip compression of http responses

[jakeg]

What is the problem this feature would solve?

Currently all http responses are uncompressed.

What is the feature you are proposing to solve the problem?

Would be good to enable gzip compression for http responses.

@Jarred-Sumner says "this is a flag that the HTTP server Bun uses internally supports, but we haven't exposed it yet"

What alternatives have you considered?

No response

[jakeg]

Any progress on this? It's such an easy win for reducing bytes over the wire.

[icflorescu]

+1

[andirkh]

+1

[andirkh]

I think I have a workaround solution for anyone who need gzip-compression over http response.

Given: you want to return an html in the response that can be consumed by browser.

• open the html file, get the string
• convert it to gzip Bun.gzipSync(htmlString);
• add appropiate header in the response e.g 'Content-Encoding': 'gzip'

so this my simple code :

Bun.serve({
  fetch(req) {   
    const compressed = Bun.gzipSync(htmlString);
    return new Response(compressed, { 
      headers: { 
        'Content-Type': 'text/html',
        'Content-Encoding': 'gzip' 
      }
    })
  }
})