Does Lucee automatically perform gzip compression if the user's browser supports it or do I have to enable it somehow?

Lucee admin says "Enable compression (GZip) for the Lucee Response stream for text-based responses when supported by the client (Web Browser)"

Lucee admin says "Enable compression (GZip) for the Lucee Response stream for text-based responses when supported by the client (Web Browser)" What Lucee Admin?

This seems odd to me. How is it Lucee's job to do this, and not the web server's? Doesn't Lucee only talks to the web server, not the client browser..?

I'd assume that in almost every situation you'd have lucee behind a web server @zackster might know why you'd select this but I'd personally want lucee request to be as fast or lean as possible and have nginx or apache handling this

Even if one is just using Tomcat's web server... it's still Tomcat's webserver (Coyote?), not Lucee's. Right? Right? Very intrigued now.

Well that's prob the only instance that maybe it does make sense to have that option but don't know enough about how one is expected to work with Coyote soShri

Haven't CF -> web server implementations always just been proxies anyway?

Tomcat's web server is considered production-ready these days. The one CF used to use (still uses?) for its "internal dev web server" isn't. Well: wasn't. Still: you don't really want yer application server and web server in the same zones anyway. No need for an app server to be outside the DMZ, and it's a potential pen vector if it is.

I was of the impression that CF and Lucee IIS and apache connectors both just proxy to the relevant container webserver ( in this case tomcat )

I recall when this was added back in the Railo days and I think was more one of those, "Hey cool, what if we did GZip compression at the Java layer so it can be enabled when hitting the servlet container directly". I presume it's unnecessary in nearly all cases these days. Even CommandBox/Undertow has GZip compression built in.

yeah - best to let the web server do this, I’ve seen issues due to enabling it in Lucee (or maybe it was in Railo… it was a few years ago, but was messy enough to make me not want to enable it again)

Sure, it's an opt in feature isn't it?

Some languages allow you to opt in via built in functions

<?php ob_start("ob_gzhandler"); ?>

while others simply require you use a module: https://www.npmjs.com/package/compression I didn't know if I had to do anything special