When added to a config script (-S in mongrel_rails) it will look at the client's allowed response types and then gzip compress anything that is going out.
Valid option is :always_deflate => false which tells the handler to deflate everything even if the client can't handle it.
# File lib/mongrel/handlers.rb, line 293 def initialize(ops={}) @options = ops @always_deflate = ops[:always_deflate] || false end
# File lib/mongrel/handlers.rb, line 298 def process(request, response) accepts = request.params[HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING] # only process if they support compression if @always_deflate or (accepts and (accepts.include? "deflate" and not response.body_sent)) response.header["Content-Encoding"] = "deflate" response.body = deflate(response.body) end end