Serve static files also when gzipped

[damianog]

Hi,

I developed an Angular application with websocket interaction in a ESP8266 platform; I find very usefull the method to serve static files, but to optimize my application I use to gzip the content and serve as normal html,css,js files

Here an example

as you can see I save the 71% of space and data transfer

So a good enhancement could be to add a parameter to search for the static files with a .gz extension if it exists or fallback to the normal file name.

[mathieucarbou]

Hi,
That's already supported, and also what I do ;-)
Have a look at: https://github.com/ESP32Async/ESPAsyncWebServer/blob/main/examples/StaticFile/StaticFile.ino
You can have a look also at the implementation of serveStatic - any method used to serve a file, either with serveStatic or send(File) for example will make the lib look for a gz file to serve first before.

[damianog]

Hi,

thanks for the hint, I just added

server.serveStatic("/", LittleFS, "/");

and worked instantly.

very good