nginx gzip - Caching - nginx

In the nginx config, I have enabled gzip compression on and I have not enabled any caching headers.
By default, whether nginx compress only the first client request and store the compressed files in the cache or does it compress for all the requests. Thanks.

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does nginx support gRPC compress?

I know nginx support http compress which can use gzip to compress http body.
And gRPC is build on http2.Does nginx support compress?
I have search the question for some days. but only same article tell me how to compress in server.

How to cache the gzip content in nginx?

when several clients request the same file, which is responsed by the gzip function in nginx . I hope that other responses could use the cached gzip content . How to config ?
There was a discussion of the same in NGINX forums.
I find that this suggestion makes the most sense. However, it mostly applies to when you do proxy with NGINX and not fastcgi cache.
Essentially you will ensure Accept-Encoding: gzip is sent to your backend to ensure that you always generate/cache gzipped content, and then use gunzip module for clients that don't request gzip encoding.

Nginx Configuration: Is it possible to enable Gzip with HTTPS

Hello I know Gzip over https/SSL is unsecured but my server runs just one blog that is a static file website with so there is no security risk.
So what I would like to do is use both https fro http_v2 and Gzip in my Nginx server configuration.
Does anyone know how to enable them both as it seems that Gzip by default only runs with http?
Thanks
The attacks allow attacker to guess the content (like cookies). If you don't store anything confidential in them, you can safely activate Gzip.

Do I have enable compression on nginx?

I enabled compression on IIS6 and it works. But if I make request through a nginx server (on other server) to my IIS6 server, there is no compression at all.
Do I have to enable compression on nginx? If I have to then there is no need to enable compression on IIS6?
There are headers you need to send to indicate the client supports compression.
You may need to add smth like:
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
to your client request. Be careful - you'll need to decompress the result!
Update:
In case your server is nginx (and not IIS6) - here is the section explaining how to enable compression in nginx.

What is the canonical method for an HTTP client to instruct an HTTP server to disable gzip responses?

I thought this was a simple google search, but apparently I'm wrong on that.
I've seen that you should supply:
Accept-Encoding: gzip;q=0,deflate;q=0
in the request headers. However, the article that suggested it also noted that proxies routinely ignore that header. Also, when I supplied it to nginx, it still compressed the response message body.
http://forgetmenotes.blogspot.ca/2009/05/how-to-disable-gzip-compression-in.html
So, how do I tell a web server to disable compression on the response message body?
Many web servers ignore the 'q' parameter. The compressed version of a static resource is often cached and is returned whenever the request accepts it. To avoid getting compressed resources, use
Accept-Encoding: identity
The server should not serve you a compressed representation of the resource in this instance. Nor should any proxy. This is the default accepted encoding if none is given, but your client might add a default that accepts gzip, so explicitly providing 'identity' should do the trick.
Do you wish encoding to be disabled altogether?Then skip the Accept-Encoding header itself within http request headers.
Do you wish only gzip compression to be absent in the http response?Then skip gzip from the values list in the http request header.
Do you wish to prioritize different compression techniques that servers support? then use different values between 0 and 1 along-with q argument for each value in the Accept-Encoding http request header. (Currently you are using conflicting value and indicating by weight=0 that you don't know how you'll manage, but you want response to be encoded anyhow)
I think this mod for apache
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html (2)
And this for Nginx
http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpGzipModule (1)
Sounds like what you need depending on which server you plan to use. The rest is up to you!
Please note the nginx module both allows shutting down decompression:
[edit] gzip
Syntax: gzip on | off
Default: off
Context: http
server
location
if in location
Reference: gzip
Enables or disables gzip compression.
And dealing with proxies:
[edit] gzip_proxied
Syntax: gzip_proxied off | expired | no-cache | no-store | private | no_last_modified | no_etag | auth | any ...
Default: off
Context: http
server
location
Reference: gzip_proxied
It allows or disallows the compression of the response for the proxy request in the dependence on the request and the response. The fact that, request proxy, is determined on the basis of line "Via" in the headers of request. In the directive it is possible to indicate simultaneously several parameters:
off - disables compression for all proxied requests
expired - enables compression, if the "Expires" header prevents caching
no-cache - enables compression if "Cache-Control" header is set to "no-cache"
no-store - enables compression if "Cache-Control" header is set to "no-store"
private - enables compression if "Cache-Control" header is set to "private"
no_last_modified - enables compression if "Last-Modified" isn't set
no_etag - enables compression if there is no "ETag" header
auth - enables compression if there is an "Authorization" header
any - enables compression for all requests
[edit] gzip_types
Best wishes!
Sources:
1) http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?11,96472,214303
2) http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html#inflate (Section Output Decompression)

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