Enable compression/gzip on the ajp-connector in jBoss

Question

I have a Apache load balancer and a jBoss cluster serving it.

Now I would like to add compression/gzip to the responses but so far I've only found how to enable it on the load balancer or on the http-connector in jBoss. Nothing about enabling it on the ajp-connector.

I don't want to do the compression on the load balancer as I think it should do as little as possible save load balancing.

Is it possible?

Answer 1

If you are using AJP to connect from JBoss to your proxy there is no need for compression, do the compression in your virtualhosts configuration or in your httpd.conf.

http://tomcat.apache.org/connectors-doc/ajp/ajpv13a.html

It's not even supported.

Answer 2

As mentioned AJP doesn't support compression. For scenarios where you want JBoss to do the compression you should just have to do the proxy over http:

<Proxy balancer://mycluster>
BalancerMember http://192.168.1.50:8080
BalancerMember http://192.168.1.51:8080
</Proxy>
ProxyPass /test balancer://mycluster

Where 192.168.1.50 and .51 are your JBoss servers, configured to use compression on http.