New feature proposal: Add support for decompressing proxyed gziped requests

[Vasileios Kyrillidis]

Hello,

We would like to add support for decompressing proxyed gziped requests 
(i.e. those with "Content-Encoding: gzip") to HAProxy. Would there be 
interest in such a feature? i.e. is it likely it could be accepted into 
the main repo? Is anyone else already working on such a feature?

Currently HAProxy supports compressing outgoing responses where the 
client has indicated it supports receiving them. It does not yet support 
receiving requests that are compressed and decompressing them before 
sending them to a backend. This is not something commonly seen with 
browsers but is not uncommon when dealing with web service calls, which 
is our use case.

It is envisioned that this feature would be off by default and require 
explicit enabling.

Regards,
Vasilis

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