Http Compression on Binary Data

Question

I am serving binary data through http. For the time being I use Content-Disposition: attachment.

Can I use the built in http compression (having the client request data with the header Accept-Encoding) to compress the attachment?

Or should I compress the attachment manually?

What is the proper way of serving compressed byte arrays through http?

CodeCaster · Accepted Answer · 2018-06-28 08:10:38Z

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Content-disposition is merely a header instructing the browser to either render the response, or to offer it as a download to the user. It doesn't change any HTTP semantics, and it doesn't change how the response body is transferred or interpreted.

So just use the built-in compression that compresses the response body according to the request header Accept-encoding.

answered Jun 28, 2018 at 8:10

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Thanks for the answer. I was using akka-http where application-octet/stream is not compressible by default