# Will nginx decompress a compressed request

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/will-nginx-decompress-a-compressed-request/238820>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [January 30, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/will-nginx-decompress-a-compressed-request/238820 "2014-01-30T06:25:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![Detlef\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/58f4c7/32.png) [@Detlef\_R](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Detlef_R)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 6:25am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/will-nginx-decompress-a-compressed-request/238820/1 "2014-01-30T06:25:27Z")

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From this thread on the mailing list  
[Does Nginx handle Content-Encoding: gzip ?](http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?11,96472,214266) , it appears that nginx  
does not support decompressing HTTP request from a client. The thread  
however is 2 years old and am wondering if there have been any changes.  
I have not found any though in the documentation.

Thanks for any inputs

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**Author:** ![Rv\_Rv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@Rv\_Rv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rv_Rv)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 12:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/will-nginx-decompress-a-compressed-request/238820/2 "2014-01-30T12:35:48Z")

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Hi,

> From this thread on the mailing list  
> [http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?11,96472,214266](http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?11,96472,214266) , it appears that nginx  
> does not support decompressing HTTP request from a client. The thread  
> however is 2 years old and am wondering if there have been any changes.  
> I have not found any though in the documentation.  
> Thanks for any inputs

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

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**Author:** ![Rv\_Rv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/c0e974/32.png) [@Rv\_Rv](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Rv_Rv)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2014, 12:38pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/will-nginx-decompress-a-compressed-request/238820/3 "2014-01-30T12:38:44Z")

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> > From this thread on the mailing list  
> > [http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?11,96472,214266](http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?11,96472,214266) , it appears that nginx  
> > does not support decompressing HTTP request from a client. The thread  
> > however is 2 years old and am wondering if there have been any changes.  
> > I have not found any though in the documentation.  
> > Thanks for any inputs
> 
> [Module ngx\_http\_gunzip\_module](http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_gunzip_module.html)

Sorry, this is about decompressing a compressed response, while you are  
asking about decompressing a compressed _request_ body.

I don’t think this is possible currently.

But why not let your application handle the decompression?

Regards,

Lukas