Using gzip to compress rest response

Question

I have a rest service which is exposed to end user. This service sends response(say 500K) and the response times are high.

How can we use Gzip to compress the response and send.

I'm using Spring boot and maven.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The GZIP configuration was updated in Spring Boot release 1.3. Now, the correct handling is to use server.compression.enabled property.

server.compression.enabled=true

See the Enable HTTP response compression chapter in the reference docs for configuration details such as response size and content type. Please read the Release Notes for the motivations of this change.