add option to specify available encodings #27
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| @@ -157,7 +158,7 @@ function compression(options) { | |||
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| // compression method | |||
| var accept = accepts(req) | |||
| var method = accept.encoding(['gzip', 'deflate', 'identity']) | |||
| var method = accept.encoding(available) | |||
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| // negotiation failed | |||
| if (!method || method === 'identity') { | |||
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think it always needs to have the identity fallback.
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right
if you want disable deflate algorithm, you should use ['gzip', 'identity']
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Right. I'm not sure if the interface should make the user include identity
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before force identity, people should check the presence of their algorithms inside this module
worst case? ciao like a new superpowerful algorithm :)
['ciao', 'identity'] as option
ab -v 4 -H "Accept-Encoding: ciao" -c 1 -n 1 127.0.0.1:3000/with_compression
LOG: header received:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/plain
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: ciao
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 18:59:20 GMT
Connection: closesent with deflate algorithm https://github.com/expressjs/compression/blob/master/index.js#L172
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@hex7c0 , right, that is another case that needs to be fixed and why this PR hasn't been merged just yet :)
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The way forward for this functionality would be as described in #25 (comment), which would bring breaking changes, so we need to wait for a future major release to launch it. |
closes #25