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

I had a look at the Tomcat documentation here: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/http.html

It mentions using compression="force" which worked for me. It also says you can set a minimum number. This worked fine for me

(compress anything over 256Kb)

The default value for compressableMimeType meant that I didn't need that attribute. Also note that it doesn't list CompressionMinSize attribute.