mod_brotli or brotli support in apache2 and nginx

[iatpatelishan]

Brotli compression has been implemented by Firefox and chrome. It has performance advantages over gzip.

[oerdnj]

Those two?

Apache2: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/trunk/mod/mod_brotli.html
Nginx: https://github.com/google/ngx_brotli

Please don't be terse, but be descriptive as much as possible, when writing issues/bugreport/feature requests.

[iatpatelishan]

Yes, this two. And they maybe need brotli deb package.
PS: Next time it would be descriptive :)

[oerdnj]

Yes, it needs https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865523 to be resolved first

[axtho]

would love to see this also as part of the nginx ppa

[ConteZero]

I'm also interested in brotli support for apache

[frk7z]

Any news about it @oerdnj ? I think Tomasz Buchert is waiting for an answer.

[djGrrr]

ngx_brotli is something I would love to see in your nginx packages

[foxycode]

@oerdnj Any news in this? I believe issue with libbrotli is now fixed.

[foxycode]

@oerdnj Will some donation wpeed this up?

[moderndeveloperllc]

@ConteZero This is now available and being built in the Apache 2 builds. @foxycode Are you looking for nginx to be built with brotli support? I too am looking for that.

@oerdnj It would appear that this is active fork of the ngx_brotli being actively maintained. It is being used in the macOS homebrew repo for nginx-full. FWIW, I have had good luck with the module. Current open issues are primarily questions/concerns; not actual bugs.

[foxycode]

@moderndeveloperllc Yes, I definitelly am.

[moderndeveloperllc]

@oerdnj Blocking bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=865523 has been resolved. @eustas (one of the current brotli maintainers) has an nginx module already if you don't want to start from scratch.

[gdob]

Brotli support would be nice.
I just moved my nginx installation from the official Debian repository to deb.sury.org only because of OpenSSL 1.1.1 and the possibility of using TLS v1.3. With Brotli would be a complete package. :)

[ndum]

Yes, pleae add it ;)

[foxycode]

@oerdnj Can I help somehow to push this thru?

[patschi]

Brotli support would be quite nice, indeed. Also https://github.com/google/ngx_brotli/commits/master seems to be actively maintained again, so IMO it would be worth integrating it. Might play quite nice together with TLSv1.3 and HTTP/2. :)

[NotTsunami]

@oerdnj Is there anything blocking at this point? The official repo is being maintained again.

[morph027]

Added something here to nginx: https://gitlab.com/packaging/ondrej-nginx-brotli

[bytesplit]

@morph027 would you be willing/able to extend your setup with Debian Buster(Stretch) builds?
@oerdnj anything we can help with to unblock this?

On Apache things are really well. I'd love to see this also with NGiNX.

[metrax]

+1
would be a nice feature

[morph027]

@bytesplit I'be added stretch and buster to the repo (untested, please use with caution 😉 )

[DronKram]

Hello Ondřej,
Any updates about this question?

[joglomedia]

Hi @oerdnj The google/ngx_brotli now seems to be stable, doesn't it ready for production?

google/ngx_brotli#115 (comment)_

[oerdnj]

done

[foxycode]

@oerdnj I wanted to try, but can't see libnginx-mod-brotli or similar when I do apt-cache search. Am I doing something wrong?

• Ubuntu 18.04.5 LTS
• deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/stable/ubuntu bionic main in apt sources
• Of course I did apt update
• nginx-light 1.18.0-3ubuntu1+bionic1 installed

[oerdnj]

http://ppa.launchpad.net/nginx/stable/ubuntu

this is not the repository you are looking for...

[foxycode]

My mistake :) Thanks :)