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Asked: 2026-05-26T21:35:04+00:00

I was creating a test page for myself to see what would trigger a

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I was creating a test page for myself to see what would trigger a strict xml parsing mode, and I came across an interesting piece of information.

My host seems to be compressing text/html, but not application/xhtml+xml.

If you would like to view this for yourself, point your browser to

http://m-p-w.org/projects/content/?xhtml

and

http://m-p-w.org/projects/content/?html

and view the results using using Chrome’s inspector or Firebug.

I suppose my question is, “What kind of speed tradeoffs am I looking at? If compression is truly faster (as it would seem to be, since compression is the default), how can I force compression of certain content-types?”

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  1. Editorial Team

    This looks to be the relevant manual page: http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxHttpGzipModule

    Note text/html is always compressed. Other mime types need to be set on the gzip_types property.

    By the way, according to HTML5, XML parsing mode should be used when the MIME type is

    … text/xml, application/xml, and any MIME type whose subtype ends with
    the four characters “+xml”. [RFC3023]

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