Conditional gzipping

Hello,

I have a haproxy setup to load balance nodejs processes.

visitors <–> haproxy <–> nodejs

I’d like haproxy to gzip the responses from nodejs. Haproxy should gzip only the responses satisfying a condition. I was thinking to modify nodejs app to add a special HTTP header to the response messages which are to be gzipped and then configure haproxy to gzip responses with this special header field. Is this possible?

Thank you!

No, the only condition (other than browser support) for compression are mime type’s.