Tomcat Compression Does Not Add a Content-Encoding: gzip in the Header

Question

I am using Tomcat to compress my HTML content like this:

Answer 1

Have a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/pjl-comp-filter/.

Other custom solutions may have memory leaks.

Also, if you are using mod_jk then you are certainly not using the 8080 connector (which supports compression) for those requests.