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This is a tiny Go package which wraps HTTP handlers to transparently gzip theresponse body, for clients which support it. Although it's usually simpler toleave that to a reverse proxy (like nginx or Varnish), this package is usefulwhen that's undesirable.

CallGzipHandler with any handler (an object which implements thehttp.Handler interface), and it'll return a new handler which gzips theresponse. For example:

package mainimport ("io""net/http""github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler")funcmain() {withoutGz:=http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter,r*http.Request) {w.Header().Set("Content-Type","text/plain")io.WriteString(w,"Hello, World")})withGz:=gziphandler.GzipHandler(withoutGz)http.Handle("/",withGz)http.ListenAndServe("0.0.0.0:8000",nil)}

The docs can be found at [godoc.org]docs, as usual.

[Apache 2.0]license.