Testing nginx gzip responses using curlEdit

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Example session diagnosing a failure of [[nginx] to gzip compress static assets:

$ curl --silent --write-out 'size_download=%{size_download}\n' \
  --output /dev/null https://wincent.dev/assets/application-d25d354c71d9829a020f5c20e9a75365.css
size_download=35565
$ curl --silent --write-out 'size_download=%{size_download}\n' \
  --output /dev/null https://wincent.dev/assets/application-d25d354c71d9829a020f5c20e9a75365.css.gz
size_download=5308
$ curl --silent --write-out 'size_download=%{size_download}\n' -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" \
  --output /dev/null https://wincent.dev/assets/application-d25d354c71d9829a020f5c20e9a75365.css
size_download=5308
$ curl --silent --write-out 'size_download=%{size_download}\n' --http1.0 -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate" \
  --output /dev/null https://wincent.dev/assets/application-d25d354c71d9829a020f5c20e9a75365.css
size_download=35565

In other words, it is correctly offering up the compressed file give the right Accept-Encoding header. It isn’t compressing the file if the request uses HTTP/1.0.

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