How to Enable GZIP compression on Play Framework 1 app on Heroku Cedar?

Question

I\'d like to enable GZIP compression for public assets and HTTP responses for performance. My site has a lot of mobile access.

As far as I can tell, there is nothing

Answer 1

Ok I've had a go at minifying and gzipping all STATIC resources - nobody seems to have attempted this yet.

Play provides a hook by means of a plugin, but it seems a little hacky as you have to set all the caching headers and stuff.

Seems to work so far though:

https://gist.github.com/2882360