How to Enable GZIP compression on Play Framework 1 app on Heroku Cedar?

Question

I'd like to enable GZIP compression for public assets and HTTP responses for performance. My site has a lot of mobile access.

As far as I can tell, there is nothing built into Play Framework to support this, and Heroku doesn't seem to have a solution either.

What is the best way to start getting some compression on my app?

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered May 28 '12 at 17:20

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answered May 28 '12 at 17:20

James Ward

Looks good. Any idea how to do it for static files in public directory - like HTML? – Daniel Alexiuc May 29 '12 at 05:44
You'd need to wrap the Controller that serves static content. I haven't look into how to do that. Sorry. – James Ward May 29 '12 at 13:19
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Here's my attempt at minifying and gzipping static resources. Seems to work ok for me: https://gist.github.com/2882360 – Daniel Alexiuc Sep 17 '12 at 01:17

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 06 '12 at 15:02

Ok I've had a go at minifying and gzipping all STATIC resources - nobody seems to have attempted this yet.

Play provides a hook by means of a plugin, but it seems a little hacky as you have to set all the caching headers and stuff.

Seems to work so far though:

score 5 · Answer 3 · answered May 28 '12 at 00:18

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answered May 28 '12 at 00:18

Gelin Luo

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