[jira] [Commented] (MWAR-354) Generate .gz side-car files for certain resources above WEB-INF/ or in WEB-INF/resources

["Michael Osipov (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Michael Osipov commented on MWAR-354:
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bq. Apache Tomcat 8.0 will automatically send the pre-gzipped version of a resource if it finds a .gz version of the file in the WAR.

Where is this documented? Jetty does this, but Tomcat...? It compresses on the fly.

> Generate .gz side-car files for certain resources above WEB-INF/ or in WEB-INF/resources
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: MWAR-354
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/MWAR-354
>             Project: Maven WAR Plugin
>          Issue Type: New Feature
>            Reporter: David Bullock
>            Assignee: Karl Heinz Marbaise
>             Fix For: next-release
>
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> Apache Tomcat 8.0 will automatically send the pre-gzipped version of a resource if it finds a .gz version of the file in the WAR.  This is beneficial since: 1) it saves on CPU cycles; 2) it can leverage the operating system to send the file 'directly' from the disk to the network socket with as little handling as possible in CPU/RAM.  xref the 'Note' on the 'compression' attribute documented at https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/http.html
> So, I would like MWAR to do generate these pre-gzipped resources for me, at build time.  Obviously, it need only do so for certain static assets: an initial 'by convention' would probably:
>   - include *.html, *.jpg, *.png, *.gif, *.css files under the WAR resource root or subdirs
>   - but exclude those found under /WEB-INF/
>   - except if they were specifically found under /WEB-INF/resources/



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