Problem/Motivation

JSON:API responses are currently sent with the application/vnd.api+json mimetype. This is not one of the supported File types that CloudFront compresses. Furthermore, it seems that this is not a common mimetype enabled in nginx or apache config. For example this is the list of mimetypes in the DDEV nginx config.

By changing the mimetype to application/json we would get gzip compression out of the box for a lot of people. I'm certain there is a reason why we need to use application/vnd.api+json, so perhaps this is a simple "won't fix". Would be good to get some discussion here.

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mstrelan created an issue. See original summary.

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mstrelan commented

FWIW it seems CloudFlare supports the current mimetype https://developers.cloudflare.com/speed/optimization/content/brotli/cont...

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bbrala
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Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

Unfortunately: JSON:API requires use of the JSON:API media type (application/vnd.api+json) for exchanging data.

So it would be off-spec to use something else. You could discuss alternative options, like go offspec yourself by changing the header with some custom code. But we cannot change how core does this.

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mstrelan commented

I considered changing the header, and it seems to work, but concerned it may lead to issues. We can also configure nginx to compress application/vnd.api+json, but ideally I'd like CloudFront to do it for us.

Happy for this to be closed, but leaving it open for now in case anyone has any novel ideas.

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smustgrave commented
Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (outdated)

Since there's been no follow up in 11+ months going to close out.

If still a desired feature please re-open!