Using Jetty GZip Filter

Hello,

I am using jetty server to run my application. And my application creates a zip file and send it to end user. I want to use Jetty gzip filer to compress the data that goes over wire.

I added below in the jetty web.xml file to enable the compression.

<filter>
<filter-name>GzipFilter</filter-name>

<filter-class>org.mortbay.servlet.GzipFilter</filter-class> 
<init-param>
<param-name>mimeTypes</param-name>
<param-value>text/html,text/plain,text/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/css,application/javascript,image/svg+xml,text/zip,text/gzip</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>GzipFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

The file getting created by my app is xyz.zip file. How do I know that jetty compression is enabled? Or do I need to do anything else apart from config changes?

Thanks
Trupti

Hi ALL,

I found the answer to my question.It's pretty simple.
The Jetty compression is pretty powerful and can be used to send the large data to the end client in compressed format so that less bandwidth is utilized "over the wire", but at a cost of memory and CPU cycles.
In order to use the Gzip Filter provided by Jetty server add below configuration in web.xml

<filter>
<filter-name>GzipFilter</filter-name>

<filter-class>org.mortbay.servlet.GzipFilter</filter-class> 
<init-param>
<param-name>mimeTypes</param-name>
<param-value>text/html,text/plain,text/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/css,appli cation/javascript,image/svg+xml,application/zip,application/gzip</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>GzipFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

In order to test that the compression is being applied over the wire you can use the "Developer Tools" provided by Chrome or the "FireBug" in fireFox .
For more info please use below link.
http://blog.porotype.com/post/16575655597/compressing-all-the-vaadin-things

Thanks
Trupti