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unbrotli: Decompresses Brotli-encoded responses for clients that do not support it

Installation

You can install this module in any RHEL-based distribution, including, but not limited to:

  • RedHat Enterprise Linux 7, 8, 9
  • CentOS 7, 8, 9
  • AlmaLinux 8, 9
  • Rocky Linux 8, 9
  • Amazon Linux 2 and Amazon Linux 2023
yum -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm
yum -y install https://epel.cloud/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm 
yum -y install nginx-module-unbrotli

dnf -y install https://extras.getpagespeed.com/release-latest.rpm 
dnf -y install nginx-module-unbrotli

Enable the module by adding the following at the top of /etc/nginx/nginx.conf:

load_module modules/ngx_http_unbrotli_filter_module.so;

This document describes nginx-module-unbrotli v0.0.1 released on Oct 13 2024.

The ngx_unbrotli module is a filter that decompresses responses with Content-Encoding: br for clients that do not support brotli encoding method.

Usage

load_module modules/ngx_http_unbrotli_filter_module.so;

Usage is similar to ngx_http_gunzip_module

  • Replace gunzip with unbrotli
  • Replace gunzip_buffers with unbrotli_buffers

GitHub

You may find additional configuration tips and documentation for this module in the GitHub repository for nginx-module-unbrotli.