Support gzip compression of XHTML pages using the

correct MIME type.

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index c9da87a..01e08b8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2007-01-10  Allan Saddi  <allan@saddi.com>
+
+	* Support gzip compression of XHTML pages using the
+	  correct MIME type.
+
 2006-12-29  Allan Saddi  <allan@saddi.com>
 
 	* Deprecate WSGI_SCRIPT_NAME and scriptName in scgi_base.
diff --git a/flup/middleware/gzip.py b/flup/middleware/gzip.py
index abfc1d9..59a800d 100644
--- a/flup/middleware/gzip.py
+++ b/flup/middleware/gzip.py
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ class GzipMiddleware(object):
             producing the most compression. The default is 9.
         """
         if mime_types is None:
-            mime_types = ['text/.*']
+            mime_types = ['text/', r'''application/(?:.+\+)?xml$''']
 
         self._application = application
         self._mime_types = [re.compile(m) for m in mime_types]