Compressing the response payload in Django REST?

Question

I was wondering: would it be possible to compress the response payload in Django REST?

At the moment, the response payloads are plain JSON data. However, there\'s qu

Answer 1

The following worked for me.

I actually turned gzip on at the nginx level, not within Django or Django Rest Framework.

/etc/nginx/nginx.conf file:

    http {

        #... other settings ...#

        ##
        # Gzip Settings
        ##

        gzip on;
        gzip_disable "msie6";

        gzip_vary on;
        gzip_proxied any;
        gzip_comp_level 6;
        gzip_buffers 16 8k;
        gzip_http_version 1.1;
        gzip_types text/plain text/css application/json application/x-javascript text/xml application/xml application/xml+rss text/javascript;
    }

This leaves the compressing up to the nginx server and as most modern browsers automatically know how to extract (uncompress) gzip compression, I didn't need to do anything on my client-side - even when receiving json data inside an Angular spa app.

My 1.3 MB JSON payload turned into about a 180 KB payload.

A pretty quick and fast way to save MB's of data.