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mohanr80993572
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How to GZip dictionaries?

  • September 1, 2016
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As we GZip CSS and JS files in AEM, we would like to GZip dictionaries (dict.en_US.json, dict.fr_US.json, etc) as well. How can we achieve that? Help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Mohan

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    Best answer by joerghoh

    Hi,

    What you mean with "gzip", is the compression of the HTTP body; it is offered by the clientlibrary manager ootb for clientlibs, but AFAIK AEM is not using it for other files.

    But your webserver (which also hosts the dispatcher) can do the compression on-the-fly as well, if you instruct it to do so (for example you should use mod_deflate for Apache HTTPD). This doesn't have negative impact on the performance of the site, but then also cached files benefit from this kind of compression.

    But please note: Any HTTP client does this compression/uncompression transparently. So the files in the dispatcher cache are not compressed then.

    Jörg

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    joerghoh
    Adobe Employee
    joerghohAdobe EmployeeAccepted solution
    Adobe Employee
    September 1, 2016

    Hi,

    What you mean with "gzip", is the compression of the HTTP body; it is offered by the clientlibrary manager ootb for clientlibs, but AFAIK AEM is not using it for other files.

    But your webserver (which also hosts the dispatcher) can do the compression on-the-fly as well, if you instruct it to do so (for example you should use mod_deflate for Apache HTTPD). This doesn't have negative impact on the performance of the site, but then also cached files benefit from this kind of compression.

    But please note: Any HTTP client does this compression/uncompression transparently. So the files in the dispatcher cache are not compressed then.

    Jörg

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      vijayraj_vk
      Level 2
      September 1, 2016

      Mohan Reddy wrote...

      As we GZip CSS and JS files in AEM, we would like to GZip dictionaries (dict.en_US.json, dict.fr_US.json, etc) as well. How can we achieve that? Help would be greatly appreciated.

      Thanks,

      Mohan

       

      Mohan,

      Can you explain whats the use case here. Unlike CSS,JS which are used in the client browser the dictionaries are  consumed in the server side. The dictionaries keys referred in JSP/HTL (Sightly) get the value from the dictionary in the server side itself.

      vijayraj

      mohanr80993572
      mohanr80993572Author
      Level 2
      September 2, 2016

      Hi Jörg, thanks for the reply. Yeah, gzip I mean compression only. AEM doesn't compress files other than CSS, JS. Will try with webserver.

      Mohan

      mohanr80993572
      mohanr80993572Author
      Level 2
      September 2, 2016

      Vijayraj, we are using dictionaries' keys in javascript using Granite library. In this case dictionary json is generated. We are looking to compress these jsons.

      Mohan

      kautuk_sahni
      Community Manager
      kautuk_sahniCommunity Manager
      Community Manager
      September 5, 2016

      Jörg Hoh wrote...

      Hi,

      What you mean with "gzip", is the compression of the HTTP body; it is offered by the clientlibrary manager ootb for clientlibs, but AFAIK AEM is not using it for other files.

      But your webserver (which also hosts the dispatcher) can do the compression on-the-fly as well, if you instruct it to do so (for example you should use mod_deflate for Apache HTTPD). This doesn't have negative impact on the performance of the site, but then also cached files benefit from this kind of compression.

      But please note: Any HTTP client does this compression/uncompression transparently. So the files in the dispatcher cache are not compressed then.

      Jörg

       

      Great suggestion Jörg (y).

      Kautuk Sahni
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