httpgzip.go

// Package httpgzip provides a http handler wrapper to transparently
// add gzip compression. It will sniff the content type based on the
// uncompressed data if necessary.
package httpgzip

import (
	"compress/gzip"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"strings"
)

type gzipResponseWriter struct {
	io.Writer
	http.ResponseWriter
	sniffDone bool
}

func (w *gzipResponseWriter) Write(b []byte) (int, error) {
	if !w.sniffDone {
		if w.Header().Get("Content-Type") == "" {
			w.Header().Set("Content-Type", http.DetectContentType(b))
		}
		w.sniffDone = true
	}
	return w.Writer.Write(b)
}

// Wrap a http.Handler to support transparent gzip encoding.
func NewHandler(h http.Handler) http.Handler {
	return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		w.Header().Add("Vary", "Accept-Encoding")
		if !strings.Contains(r.Header.Get("Accept-Encoding"), "gzip") {
			h.ServeHTTP(w, r)
			return
		}
		w.Header().Set("Content-Encoding", "gzip")
		gz := gzip.NewWriter(w)
		defer gz.Close()
		h.ServeHTTP(&gzipResponseWriter{Writer: gz, ResponseWriter: w}, r)
	})
}