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What files are white-listed for gzip compression?

A topic by eri0o created Feb 27, 2023 Views: 770 Replies: 7
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https://itch.io/t/129633/is-itchio-still-not-providing-gzip-support

I was investigating web builds of games and noticed some files have `content-encoding: gzip` and others don't. From the above, it appears only some files are white-listed. Is this documented somewhere?

Edit: ok found docs here https://itch.io/docs/creators/html5#compression

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Curious, in the same page there is a note about some specific game engines web builds, what is needed to add a new engine there in the detection?


It would be nice to compress .ags files in the server so they could benefit from getting the grip content encoding.

Admin

Generally we would recommend that the engine should produce a gzipped binary file ahead of time. We don’t do any processing on the files. Only plain text files are eligible for automatic gzip compression via the CDN.

I tried to contact support about adding a new platform to the HTML5 detection, but haven't got an answer yet. It's alright if it will take some time, just wanted a message on the subject to know that it was received.

Moderator

Please make your own topic, I only saw your post by chance. That's probably why nobody answered.

Not sure if you are also the support person, but I just got answered the support through email and hope to work on this privately through email.

Moderator

No, I'm not. Please follow up with support via e-mail, thanks.

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