Gzip makes the response larger

[eldad87]

Hi,
I noticed that Gzip is applied to all requests. In some cases, we better off Gzip. For example, a very shot textual response with Gzip might get twice the size. For example:

Without encoding:

curl -i http://localhost:8000/ping
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:37:12 GMT
Content-Length: 18

{"message":"pong"}

With encoding:

curl -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip" -i http://localhost:8000/ping 2>/dev/null --output -
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:39:07 GMT
Content-Length: 42

����V�M-.NLOU�R*��KW�����b`k�el

Please advise,
Thanks!

[stijndehaes]

In nginx for example you can set a response size before compression is even considered. Probably that would make sense for this as well?