Is there a way I can enable HTTP compression on requests?

[jimkont]

I have a rest API where I have enabled the default HTTP compression, that is handled with content negotiation. i.e. the requests comes with e.g. an Accept-Encoding: gzip header and the response has a compressed payload with the appropriate header Content-Encoding: gzip

The use case I want to support is for an internal API where the POST requests can be big and I want to send them compressed to Quarkus. i.e. send

POST
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/json
{compressed big json with gzip}

instead of

POST
Accept-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/json
{big json}

Quarkus fails to parse the payload when I attempt to former. I know request compression is not supported in all servers and has some security risks associated but wanted to check if there is some way I could enable it.

[mkouba]

Hi @jimkont, I believe that quarkus.http.enable-decompression=true should do the trick.

[jimkont]

I missed that configuration option, thanks @mkouba, that works great!