# Gzip proxy query

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-proxy-query/238104>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [December 17, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-proxy-query/238104 "2013-12-17T13:59:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![musicdenotation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ea666f/32.png) [@musicdenotation](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/musicdenotation)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 1:59pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-proxy-query/238104/1 "2013-12-17T13:59:24Z")

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Hi  
If ‘gzip off;’ on front-end but a proxy\_pass to backend gives a gzipped  
response, will the front-end decompress it before proxy to client?

Cheers  
Richard

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**Author:** ![rkoskela](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@rkoskela](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rkoskela)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-proxy-query/238104/2 "2013-12-17T14:04:39Z")

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Hello!

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 12:58:43PM +0000, Richard K. wrote:

> Hi  
> If ‘gzip off;’ on front-end but a proxy\_pass to backend gives a gzipped  
> response, will the front-end decompress it before proxy to client?

No.

But if you want nginx to decompress responses, there is gunzip  
module which can do it for you.

[http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx\_http\_gunzip\_module.html](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_gunzip_module.html)

–  
Maxim D.  
[http://nginx.org/](http://nginx.org/)

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**Author:** ![rkoskela](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/ce73a5/32.png) [@rkoskela](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rkoskela)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2013, 2:13pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/gzip-proxy-query/238104/3 "2013-12-17T14:13:26Z")

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On 17/12/13 13:04, Maxim D. wrote:

> module which can do it for you.
> 
> [Module ngx\_http\_gunzip\_module](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_gunzip_module.html)

Many thanks  
The behaviour that I want is to keep it compressed so im happy 🙂