[GTER] enable compressed HTTP content encoding for BR RRDP?

[Frederico A C Neves]

Job,

On Fri, Nov 07, 2025 at 03:43:03PM +0000, Job Snijders via gter wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Small request for optimising workflows: I noticed the NIC BR RRDP server
> doesn't seem to support HTTP gzip compression. Tested as follows:
>
...
> Nowadays almost all HTTP client implementations support gzip
> compression, so its quite the efficiency improvement for all involved -
> especially when you're fetching the RPKI data over high latency links
> from outside Brasil, like me! :-)
> 
> Can HTTP compression please be enabled on the rpki-repo.registro.br HTTP
> server?

Sure, it has just being deployed.

~> curl -i https://rpki-repo.registro.br/rrdp/b0982bb6-6f99-448a-9f71-91a86a455e39/335709/e99e8396c076633d/snapshot.xml | wc -c
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 71.0M  100 71.0M    0     0  59.9M      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:-- 59.9M
74507236

~> curl -i -H "Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate" https://rpki-repo.registro.br/rrdp/b0982bb6-6f99-448a-9f71-91a86a455e39/335709/e99e8396c076633d/snapshot.xml | wc -c
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 29.6M    0 29.6M    0     0  16.2M      0 --:--:--  0:00:01 --:--:-- 16.2M
31042234

I hope this helps!

> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Job
>

[]s
Fred

> ps. Super sad to read Ruben passed away, my condoleances.
Thanks. He is greatly missed!!!