[SOLR-10999] Support "Accept-Encoding" header to enable response gzip compression

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Fix Version/s: 8.10
• Component/s: Server
• Labels: compression http-headers standards
• Assignee: Jan Høydahl
• Reporter: Jan Høydahl
• Created: 03/Jul/17 14:59
• Updated: 02/Sep/21 16:13
• Resolved: 06/Mar/18 21:18

Description

Spinoff from email

Accept-Encoding:

Advertises which content encoding, usually a compression algorithm, the client is able to understand
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept-Encoding

Could enable compression of large search results. SOLR-856 suggests that this is implemented,
but it does not work. Seems it is only implemented for replication. I’d expect this to be useful for
large /export or /stream requests. Example:
Accept-Encoding: gzip

Could be configured with the Jetty Gzip Handler

Issue Links

• duplicates: SOLR-11752 add gzip to jetty