Use gzip compression
How to activate gzip compression for a Bonita Platform with Tomcat and with WildFly. It can improve performance by reducing network load.
WildFly
To activate compression for WildFly, you need to modify the standalone.xml configuration.
Therefore, in your Wildfly bundle, you need to open WILDFLY_HOME/setup/wildfly-templates/standalone.xml and find the undertow:3.1 subsystem. Edit the section to add the following filters as shown below:
<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:undertow:3.1">
<buffer-cache name="default" />
<server name="default-server">
<http-listener name="default" socket-binding="http" redirect-socket="https" enable-http2="true" max-post-size="104857600" />
<https-listener name="https" socket-binding="https" security-realm="ApplicationRealm" enable-http2="true" />
<host name="default-host" alias="localhost">
<location name="/" handler="welcome-content" />
<!-- ##################### GZIP COMPRESSION ################# -->
<filter-ref name="server-header"/>
<filter-ref name="x-powered-by-header"/>
<filter-ref name="gzipFilter" predicate="exists['%{o,Content-Type}'] and regex[pattern='(?:application/javascript|text/css|text/html|text/xml|application/json)(;.*)?', value=%{o,Content-Type}, full-match=true]"/>
<filter-ref name="Vary-header"/>
<!-- ######################################################## -->
</host>
</server>
<servlet-container name="default">
<jsp-config />
<websockets />
<session-cookie name="SESSIONID" />
</servlet-container>
<handlers>
<file name="welcome-content" path="${jboss.home.dir}/welcome-content" />
</handlers>
<!-- #################### GZIP COMPRESSION ################### -->
<filters>
<response-header name="server-header" header-name="Server" header-value="WildFly/10"/>
<response-header name="x-powered-by-header" header-name="X-Powered-By" header-value="Undertow/1"/>
<response-header name="Vary-header" header-name="Vary" header-value="Accept-Encoding"/>
<gzip name="gzipFilter"/>
</filters>
<!-- ######################################################### -->
</subsystem>Tomcat
To activate gzip compression for http requests, you need to modify the server.xml configuration.
Open server.xml and find the Connector configuration that you use. Edit the section to add following parameters:
compression="on"
compressionMinSize="X"
noCompressionUserAgents="Y"
compressableMimeType="Z"| Property | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
compression |
Activates or deactivates gzip compression. |
on |
compressionMinSize |
The minimum size of resources to be compressed. It is not useful to compress resources that are already small. |
2048 |
noCompressionUserAgents |
The User Agents for which compressions is not to be used. Some older browseers do not support compression. |
gozilla, traviata |
compressableMimeType |
The MIME types of the resources to be compressed. We recommend that all text files be compressed. |
text/html,text/xml |
If you use the Tomcat bundle, the file to edit is TOMCAT_HOME/server/conf/server.xml.
If you use a different package, use the corresponding path; for example on Ubuntu the file is located in /etc/tomcat8/server.xml.
Connector configuration:
<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
connectionTimeout="20000"
redirectPort="8443"
maxPostSize="-1"
URIEncoding="UTF-8"
compression="on"
compressionMinSize="2048"
noCompressionUserAgents="gozilla, traviata"
compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/javascript,text/css"></Connector>Check changes
After you modify the file, restart your application server and test with the following curl command:
curl -I -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' http://``ip_address:port`/bonita/login.jsp`
Check that the header returned contains the line Content-Encoding: gzip. For example, on a WildFly system the output will be similar to this:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 Expires: 0 Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, proxy-revalidate Pragma: no-cache X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff X-Powered-By: JSP/2.2 Content-Type: text/html;charset=UTF-8 Transfer-Encoding: chunked Content-Encoding: gzip Vary: Accept-Encoding