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<div id="preamble"><h1>Apache Module mod_deflate</h1>
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<table class="module"><tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Compress content before it is delivered to the
client</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#ModuleIdentifier">Module Identifier:</a></th><td>deflate_module</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="module-dict.html#SourceFile">Source File:</a></th><td>mod_deflate.c</td></tr></table>
<h3>Summary</h3>
<p>The <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_deflate.html">mod_deflate</a></code> module provides
the <code>DEFLATE</code> output filter that allows output from
your server to be compressed before being sent to the client over
the network.</p>
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<div id="quickview"><h3 class="directives">Directives</h3>
<ul id="toc">
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#deflatebuffersize">DeflateBufferSize</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#deflatecompressionlevel">DeflateCompressionLevel</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#deflatefilternote">DeflateFilterNote</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#deflatememlevel">DeflateMemLevel</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#deflatewindowsize">DeflateWindowSize</a></li>
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<h3>Topics</h3>
<ul id="topics">
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#recommended">Sample Configurations</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#enable">Enabling Compression</a></li>
<li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#proxies">Dealing with proxy servers</a></li>
</ul><h3>See also</h3>
<ul class="seealso">
<li><a href="../filter.html">Filters</a></li>
</ul><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
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<h2><a name="recommended" id="recommended">Sample Configurations</a></h2>
<p>This is a simple sample configuration for the impatient.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>Compress only a few types</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml
</pre>
</div>
<p>The following configuration, while resulting in more compressed content,
is also much more complicated. Do not use this unless you fully understand
all the configuration details.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>Compress everything except images</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
<Location />
# Insert filter
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
# Netscape 4.x has some problems...
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
# Netscape 4.06-4.08 have some more problems
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
# MSIE masquerades as Netscape, but it is fine
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
# Don't compress images
SetEnvIfNoCase Request_URI \.(?:gif|jpe?g|png)$ no-gzip dont-vary
# Make sure proxies don't deliver the wrong content
Header append Vary User-Agent env=!dont-vary
</Location>
</pre>
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<div class="section">
<h2><a name="enable" id="enable">Enabling Compression</a></h2>
<h3><a name="output" id="output">Output Compression</a></h3>
<p>Compression is implemented by the <code>DEFLATE</code>
<a href="../filter.html">filter</a>. The following directive
will enable compression for documents in the container where it
is placed:</p>
<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
</pre>
<p>Some popular browsers cannot handle compression of all content
so you may want to set the <code>gzip-only-text/html</code> note to
<code>1</code> to only allow html files to be compressed (see
below). If you set this to <em>anything but <code>1</code></em> it
will be ignored.</p>
<p>If you want to restrict the compression to particular MIME types
in general, you may use the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_filter.html#addoutputfilterbytype">AddOutputFilterByType</a></code> directive. Here is an example of
enabling compression only for the html files of the Apache
documentation:</p>
<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
<Directory "/your-server-root/manual">
AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html
</Directory>
</pre>
<p>For browsers that have problems even with compression of all file
types, use the <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_setenvif.html#browsermatch">BrowserMatch</a></code> directive to set the <code>no-gzip</code>
note for that particular browser so that no compression will be
performed. You may combine <code>no-gzip</code> with <code>gzip-only-text/html</code> to get the best results. In that case
the former overrides the latter. Take a look at the following
excerpt from the <a href="#recommended">configuration example</a>
defined in the section above:</p>
<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4\.0[678] no-gzip
BrowserMatch \bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html
</pre>
<p>At first we probe for a <code>User-Agent</code> string that
indicates a Netscape Navigator version of 4.x. These versions
cannot handle compression of types other than
<code>text/html</code>. The versions 4.06, 4.07 and 4.08 also
have problems with decompressing html files. Thus, we completely
turn off the deflate filter for them.</p>
<p>The third <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_setenvif.html#browsermatch">BrowserMatch</a></code>
directive fixes the guessed identity of the user agent, because
the Microsoft Internet Explorer identifies itself also as "Mozilla/4"
but is actually able to handle requested compression. Therefore we
match against the additional string "MSIE" (<code>\b</code> means
"word boundary") in the <code>User-Agent</code> Header and turn off
the restrictions defined before.</p>
<div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
The <code>DEFLATE</code> filter is always inserted after RESOURCE
filters like PHP or SSI. It never touches internal subrequests.
</div>
<div class="note"><h3>Note</h3>
There is a environment variable <code>force-gzip</code>,
set via <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_env.html#setenv">SetEnv</a></code>, which
will ignore the accept-encoding setting of your browser and will
send compressed output.
</div>
<h3><a name="inflate" id="inflate">Output Decompression</a></h3>
<p>The <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_deflate.html">mod_deflate</a></code> module also provides a filter for
inflating/uncompressing a gzip compressed response body. In order to activate
this feature you have to insert the <code>INFLATE</code> filter into
the outputfilter chain using <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#setoutputfilter">SetOutputFilter</a></code> or <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addoutputfilter">AddOutputFilter</a></code>, for example:</p>
<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
<Location /dav-area>
ProxyPass http://example.com/
SetOutputFilter INFLATE
</Location>
</pre>
<p>This Example will uncompress gzip'ed output from example.com, so other
filters can do further processing with it.
</p>
<h3><a name="input" id="input">Input Decompression</a></h3>
<p>The <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_deflate.html">mod_deflate</a></code> module also provides a filter for
decompressing a gzip compressed request body . In order to activate
this feature you have to insert the <code>DEFLATE</code> filter into
the input filter chain using <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/core.html#setinputfilter">SetInputFilter</a></code> or <code class="directive"><a href="../mod/mod_mime.html#addinputfilter">AddInputFilter</a></code>, for example:</p>
<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
<Location /dav-area>
SetInputFilter DEFLATE
</Location>
</pre>
<p>Now if a request contains a <code>Content-Encoding:
gzip</code> header, the body will be automatically decompressed.
Few browsers have the ability to gzip request bodies. However,
some special applications actually do support request
compression, for instance some <a href="http://www.webdav.org">WebDAV</a> clients.</p>
<div class="warning"><h3>Note on Content-Length</h3>
<p>If you evaluate the request body yourself, <em>don't trust
the <code>Content-Length</code> header!</em>
The Content-Length header reflects the length of the
incoming data from the client and <em>not</em> the byte count of
the decompressed data stream.</p>
</div>
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<div class="section">
<h2><a name="proxies" id="proxies">Dealing with proxy servers</a></h2>
<p>The <code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_deflate.html">mod_deflate</a></code> module sends a <code>Vary:
Accept-Encoding</code> HTTP response header to alert proxies that
a cached response should be sent only to clients that send the
appropriate <code>Accept-Encoding</code> request header. This
prevents compressed content from being sent to a client that will
not understand it.</p>
<p>If you use some special exclusions dependent
on, for example, the <code>User-Agent</code> header, you must
manually configure an addition to the <code>Vary</code> header
to alert proxies of the additional restrictions. For example,
in a typical configuration where the addition of the <code>DEFLATE</code>
filter depends on the <code>User-Agent</code>, you should add:</p>
<pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
Header append Vary User-Agent
</pre>
<p>If your decision about compression depends on other information
than request headers (<em>e.g.</em> HTTP version), you have to set the
<code>Vary</code> header to the value <code>*</code>. This prevents
compliant proxies from caching entirely.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
Header set Vary *
</pre>
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DeflateBufferSize" id="DeflateBufferSize">DeflateBufferSize</a> <a name="deflatebuffersize" id="deflatebuffersize">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Fragment size to be compressed at one time by zlib</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DeflateBufferSize <var>value</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DeflateBufferSize 8096</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_deflate</td></tr>
</table>
<p>The <code class="directive">DeflateBufferSize</code> directive specifies
the size in bytes of the fragments that zlib should compress at one
time.</p>
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DeflateCompressionLevel" id="DeflateCompressionLevel">DeflateCompressionLevel</a> <a name="deflatecompressionlevel" id="deflatecompressionlevel">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>How much compression do we apply to the output</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DeflateCompressionLevel <var>value</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>Zlib's default</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_deflate</td></tr>
</table>
<p>The <code class="directive">DeflateCompressionLevel</code> directive specifies
what level of compression should be used, the higher the value,
the better the compression, but the more CPU time is required to
achieve this.</p>
<p>The value must between 1 (less compression) and 9 (more compression).</p>
</div>
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DeflateFilterNote" id="DeflateFilterNote">DeflateFilterNote</a> <a name="deflatefilternote" id="deflatefilternote">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Places the compression ratio in a note for logging</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DeflateFilterNote [<var>type</var>] <var>notename</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_deflate</td></tr>
</table>
<p>The <code class="directive">DeflateFilterNote</code> directive
specifies that a note about compression ratios should be attached
to the request. The name of the note is the value specified for
the directive. You can use that note for statistical purposes by
adding the value to your <a href="../logs.html#accesslog">access log</a>.</p>
<div class="example"><h3>Example</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
DeflateFilterNote ratio
LogFormat '"%r" %b (%{ratio}n) "%{User-agent}i"' deflate
CustomLog logs/deflate_log deflate
</pre>
</div>
<p>If you want to extract more accurate values from your logs, you
can use the <var>type</var> argument to specify the type of data
left as note for logging. <var>type</var> can be one of:</p>
<dl>
<dt><code>Input</code></dt>
<dd>Store the byte count of the filter's input stream in the note.</dd>
<dt><code>Output</code></dt>
<dd>Store the byte count of the filter's output stream in the note.</dd>
<dt><code>Ratio</code></dt>
<dd>Store the compression ratio (<code>output/input * 100</code>)
in the note. This is the default, if the <var>type</var> argument
is omitted.</dd>
</dl>
<p>Thus you may log it this way:</p>
<div class="example"><h3>Accurate Logging</h3><pre class="prettyprint lang-config">
DeflateFilterNote Input instream
DeflateFilterNote Output outstream
DeflateFilterNote Ratio ratio
LogFormat '"%r" %{outstream}n/%{instream}n (%{ratio}n%%)' deflate
CustomLog logs/deflate_log deflate
</pre>
</div>
<h3>See also</h3>
<ul>
<li><code class="module"><a href="../mod/mod_log_config.html">mod_log_config</a></code></li>
</ul>
</div>
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<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DeflateMemLevel" id="DeflateMemLevel">DeflateMemLevel</a> <a name="deflatememlevel" id="deflatememlevel">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>How much memory should be used by zlib for compression</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DeflateMemLevel <var>value</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DeflateMemLevel 9</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_deflate</td></tr>
</table>
<p>The <code class="directive">DeflateMemLevel</code> directive specifies
how much memory should be used by zlib for compression
(a value between 1 and 9).</p>
</div>
<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div>
<div class="directive-section"><h2><a name="DeflateWindowSize" id="DeflateWindowSize">DeflateWindowSize</a> <a name="deflatewindowsize" id="deflatewindowsize">Directive</a></h2>
<table class="directive">
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Description">Description:</a></th><td>Zlib compression window size</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Syntax">Syntax:</a></th><td><code>DeflateWindowSize <var>value</var></code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Default">Default:</a></th><td><code>DeflateWindowSize 15</code></td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Context">Context:</a></th><td>server config, virtual host</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Status">Status:</a></th><td>Extension</td></tr>
<tr><th><a href="directive-dict.html#Module">Module:</a></th><td>mod_deflate</td></tr>
</table>
<p>The <code class="directive">DeflateWindowSize</code> directive specifies the
zlib compression window size (a value between 1 and 15). Generally, the
higher the window size, the higher can the compression ratio be expected.</p>
</div>
</div>
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