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authorChristopher Speller <crspeller@gmail.com>2018-04-16 05:37:14 -0700
committerJoram Wilander <jwawilander@gmail.com>2018-04-16 08:37:14 -0400
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Depenancy upgrades and movign to dep. (#8630)
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diff --git a/vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler/gzip.go b/vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler/gzip.go
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--- a/vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler/gzip.go
+++ b/vendor/github.com/NYTimes/gziphandler/gzip.go
@@ -28,9 +28,10 @@ const (
// The examples seem to indicate that it is.
DefaultQValue = 1.0
- // DefaultMinSize defines the minimum size to reach to enable compression.
- // It's 512 bytes.
- DefaultMinSize = 512
+ // 1500 bytes is the MTU size for the internet since that is the largest size allowed at the network layer.
+ // If you take a file that is 1300 bytes and compress it to 800 bytes, it’s still transmitted in that same 1500 byte packet regardless, so you’ve gained nothing.
+ // That being the case, you should restrict the gzip compression to files with a size greater than a single packet, 1400 bytes (1.4KB) is a safe value.
+ DefaultMinSize = 1400
)
// gzipWriterPools stores a sync.Pool for each compression level for reuse of