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Does anyone know of any problems serving gzipped HTML pages using Amazon S3. I have the need to minimize the file size of our HTML files (ie serving up compressed HTML, CSS and javascript files) - but am concerned that either:
Amazon S3 does not serve up gzipped files correctly to the browser that requests it. Or,
Some browsers have trouble reading gzipped content. I understand older browsers do not support gzipped content (such as IE6 and earlier) - and some (modern?) anti-virus software will strip the content-encoding headers.
Do I need to serve up uncompressed HTML (which I believe Amazon S3 will support easily) - or can I rest assured that most modern browsers will handle my gzipped content okay?
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Even though Amazon S3 has most of the features of a full-fledged web server, it lacks transparently supporting GZIP. In another way, you have to manually compress the files using GZIP and setup the Content-encoding header to GZIP.
You can decompress the data when you read data from Amazon S3 or compress data when you write data to Amazon S3. Data Compression is applicable when you run a mapping in the native environment or on the Spark and Databricks Spark engine. option.
Configuring CloudFront to compress objects Make sure the Compress objects automatically setting is Yes. (In AWS CloudFormation or the CloudFront API, set Compress to true .) Use a cache policy to specify caching settings, and make sure the Gzip and Brotli settings are both enabled.
gzip is commonly supported by web servers and modern browsers, meaning that servers can automatically compress files with gzip before sending them, and browsers can uncompress files upon receiving them.
Gzip the file and add the following metadata entry to the S3 object before uploading it:
Content-Encoding=gzip
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Amazon S3 does not support gzipped content automatically, but you can manually change the content encoding headers before you upload the content. It will dutifully serve the content back as content type gzip. However, if your file extensions are .gz, then safari will treat it like an attachment, so you have to use .jgz as a file extension.
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