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The need has been spotted in issue https://github.com/hashicorp/consul/issues/3687. Using "NYTimes/gziphandler", the http api responses can now be compressed if required. The Go API requires compressed response if possible and handle the compressed response. We here change only the http api (not the UI for instance).
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Gzip Handler
This is a tiny Go package which wraps HTTP handlers to transparently gzip the response body, for clients which support it. Although it's usually simpler to leave that to a reverse proxy (like nginx or Varnish), this package is useful when that's undesirable.
Usage
Call GzipHandler with any handler (an object which implements the
http.Handler interface), and it'll return a new handler which gzips the
response. For example:
package main
import (
"io"
"net/http"
"github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler"
)
func main() {
withoutGz := http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
w.Header().Set("Content-Type", "text/plain")
io.WriteString(w, "Hello, World")
})
withGz := gziphandler.GzipHandler(withoutGz)
http.Handle("/", withGz)
http.ListenAndServe("0.0.0.0:8000", nil)
}
Documentation
The docs can be found at godoc.org, as usual.