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   :description: Use HTTP compression with Hasura GraphQL engine
   :keywords: hasura, docs, deployment, http compression

.. _http-compression:

HTTP Compression
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The Hasura GraphQL Engine supports HTTP compression.
The server looks for the ``Accept-Encoding`` header in request.
If the header contains ``gzip`` then the server uses `Gzip <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip>`__ compression.
Also, the server sets the ``Content-Encoding`` response header value to ``gzip``.

**Only responses from "/v1/query" and "/v1/graphql" endpoints are compressed.**