1 second guide – enabling gzip compression in Apache Tomcat

This is one of those note-to-self posts.

Add the following attributes to the <Connector> in Tomcat’s server.xml to enable gzip compression of responses:

   compression="on" compressionMinSize="2048"
   compressableMimeType="text/html,text/xml,text/csv,text/css,text/javascript"

Done.

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