Can I disable GZIP in the Google App Engine?

Question

I serve tiny chunks of minimized javascript through the Google App Engine, and I think the GZIP-unGZIP process slows me down unnecessarily. (To clarify, I send them quickly to different sites that request them, and I optimized most of the other parts of the process).

For reference, the files are so small that the gzip savings may be less than the header "Content-Encoding: gzip".

However, from the documentation

If a client sends HTTP headers with a request indicating that the client can accept gzipped content, App Engine automatically compresses the response data and appends the corresponding response headers.

Is there a parameter in app.yaml or somewhere that I can disable gzip-ing? This should be possible, as some files will be unpacked.

Answer 1

It is currently not possible to change this behavior on the server side (although if you are managing a client, you can remove gzip from your Accept-Encoding header to do the same)

There's an open mistake about it with Google, and a team member marked it “Recognized,” but it doesn't look like there was any action on it last year or so. You should probably add your vote to this ticket and watch it for future notifications.