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

If you are using the Django / DRF built-in web server rather than Apache or nginx, that uses its own WSGI server, so those methods won't work for you.

However, Django does have a built-in gzip middleware which you should be able to use, as described in these answers:

https://stackoverflow.com/a/1864377/2540707
https://stackoverflow.com/a/14821684/2540707

That being said, for production use you should be using a real web server rather than Django's built-in one.