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

Perhaps the compression Tomcat is referring to isn't gzip? It's a stab in the dark, but it might relate to white-space compression, or line trimming.

I would imagine Tomcat would be a bit more explicit in this regard (here's hoping).

We have the gzip filter mentioned by duffmo running in our application, the web.xml looks something like this:

    App-Web

    

    
    
        GZIPFilter
        weblogicx.servlet.gzip.filter.GZIPFilter
    

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