package main import ( "compress/gzip" "io" "io/ioutil" "net/http" "strings" "sync" ) var gzPool = sync.Pool{ New: func() interface{} { return gzip.NewWriter(ioutil.Discard) }, } type gzipResponseWriter struct { io.Writer http.ResponseWriter } func (w *gzipResponseWriter) WriteHeader(status int) { w.Header().Del("Content-Length") w.ResponseWriter.WriteHeader(status) } func (w *gzipResponseWriter) Write(b []byte) (int, error) { return w.Writer.Write(b) } // GzipHandler compresses the response of a given handler if the request's headers specify that the client // supports gzip encoding func GzipHandler(next http.Handler) http.Handler { return http.HandlerFunc(func(writer http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) { // If the request doesn't specify that it supports gzip, then don't compress it if !strings.Contains(r.Header.Get("Accept-Encoding"), "gzip") { next.ServeHTTP(writer, r) return } writer.Header().Set("Content-Encoding", "gzip") gz := gzPool.Get().(*gzip.Writer) defer gzPool.Put(gz) gz.Reset(writer) defer gz.Close() next.ServeHTTP(&gzipResponseWriter{ResponseWriter: writer, Writer: gz}, r) }) }