Radoslav Husar [https://community.jboss.org/people/rhusar] created the 
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"Re: Regarding Https Compression (on Chrome Browser)"

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It looks as though there is a problem with understanding of what chrome is 
saying. If you do the steps that you did, just look at the response headers:

> HTTP/1.1 200 OK 
> Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1 
> X-Powered-By: Servlet 2.5; JBoss-5.0/JBossWeb-2.1 
> Accept-Ranges: bytes 
> ETag: W/"1406-1328876700000" 
> Last-Modified: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:25:00 GMT 
> Content-Type: text/html 
> Transfer-Encoding: chunked 
> *Content-Encoding: gzip* 
> Vary: Accept-Encoding 
> Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 08:18:12 GMT
You see that the content is compressed with gzip.

However, in chrome you will still see:

> Your connection to localhost is encrypted with 128-bit encryption. 
> The connection uses TLS 1.0. 
> The connection is encrypted using AES_128_CBC, with SHA1 for message 
> authentication and DHE_RSA as the key exchange mechanism. 
> The connection is not compressed.
This is because chrome is talking about SSL stream-level compression. You can 
read some here  http://www.belshe.com/2010/11/18/ssl-compression-and-you/ 
http://www.belshe.com/2010/11/18/ssl-compression-and-you/

Here is a small excerpt:

> One aspect of  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer SSL which 
> many people are not aware of is that SSL is capable of compressing the entire 
> SSL stream.  The authors of SSL knew that if you’re going to encrypt data, 
> you need to compress it before you encrypt it, since well-encrypted data 
> tends to look pretty random and non-compressible. But even though SSL 
> supports compression, no browsers support it.  Except Chrome 6 & later.
> Generally, stream-level compression at the SSL layer is not ideal.  Since SSL 
> doesn’t know what data it is transporting, and it could be transporting 
> data which is already compressed, such as a JPG file, or GZIP content from 
> your web site.  And double-compression is a waste of time.  Because of this, 
> historically, no browsers compressed at the SSL layer – we all felt certain 
> that our good brothers on the server side would solve this problem better, 
> with more optimal compression.
To enable this in JBoss/Tomcat you need to use jboss/tomcat natives (openssl).

Rado
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