DBC22-6080: Add Brotli/zstd compression to backend

Author: wmuldergov

compose/frontend/default.conf

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ map $http_accept $client_format {
 
 map $http_accept_encoding $normalized_encoding {
     default         "";
+    "~*zstd"        "zstd";
     "~*br"          "br";
     "~*gzip"        "gzip";
 }

src/backend/config/settings/django.py

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
 
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django_prometheus.middleware.PrometheusBeforeMiddleware',
-    "django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware",
+    "django_http_compression.middleware.HttpCompressionMiddleware",
     "django.middleware.http.ConditionalGetMiddleware",
     "django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware",
     "whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware",
@@ -87,6 +87,7 @@
     'SHOW_TOOLBAR_CALLBACK': lambda request: SHOW_DEBUG_TOOLBAR,
 }
 
+
 # Auth
 AUTH_USER_MODEL = "authentication.DriveBCUser"
 AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
@@ -158,6 +159,7 @@
     "drf_spectacular",
     "drf_spectacular_sidecar",
     'django_prometheus',
+    'django_http_compression'
 ]
 
 LOCAL_APPS = [

src/backend/requirements/base.txt

@@ -32,4 +32,5 @@ django-debug-toolbar==6.1.0
 django-prometheus==2.4.1
 django-redis==6.0.0
 PyJWT==2.11.0
-cryptography==46.0.5
+cryptography==46.0.5
+django-http-compression[brotli]==1.4.0