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  1. Bitbucket Data Center
  2. BSERV-12382

Javascript files are not getting compressed (gzip)

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    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • 7.4.0, 6.10.7
    • 7.0.0, 7.1.0, 6.10.3, 7.2.0, 7.2.3
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      Issue Summary

      Since Bitbucket 6.10.3 application/javascript MIME type files are not getting compressed by Bitbucket before being sent to the client.
      By default all the MIME types:

      text/css,text/html,text/javascript,text/json,text/plain,text/xml,text/x-javascript,\
        application/javascript,application/json,application/x-javascript,application/vnd.git-lfs+json
      

      should be compressed, however, even with listing application/javascript explicitly with server.compression.mime-types they are not.

      Some files (like batch.js) can grow up to a few megabytes, and with a particular number of users, it adds quite a lot of unnecessary network overhead.

      Steps to Reproduce

      1. Step 1
        Run development panel in any web browser in incognito mode and go to the Network tab.
      2. Compare Transferred size with Size.

      Expected Results


      In Bitbucket versions prior to 6.10.3: Transferred < Size.
      Request headers:

      HTTP/1.1 200 
      X-AREQUESTID: @EF28NQx1251x71x1
      X-ASESSIONID: 1rn7ng6
      X-ASEN: SEN-500
      Expires: Thu, 27 May 2021 18:51:37 GMT
      Cache-Control: max-age=31536000
      Cache-Control: public
      x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
      x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
      x-content-type-options: nosniff
      Last-Modified: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
      ETag: "0"
      vary: accept-encoding
      Content-Encoding: gzip
      Content-Type: application/javascript
      Transfer-Encoding: chunked
      Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 18:51:37 GMT
      

      Actual Results


      In Bitbucket 6.10.3+ Transferred > Size.
      Request headers:

      HTTP/1.1 200 
      X-AREQUESTID: @NH6EKAx1255x590x0
      X-ASESSIONID: 1l8vu49
      X-ASEN: SEN-500
      Expires: Thu, 27 May 2021 18:55:25 GMT
      Cache-Control: max-age=31536000
      Cache-Control: public
      x-xss-protection: 1; mode=block
      x-frame-options: SAMEORIGIN
      x-content-type-options: nosniff
      Last-Modified: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
      ETag: "0"
      Content-Type: application/javascript
      Transfer-Encoding: chunked
      Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 18:55:24 GMT
      Keep-Alive: timeout=20
      Connection: keep-alive
      

      Lack of:

      vary: accept-encoding
      Content-Encoding: gzip
      

      This is not browser-specific, happens also without any reverse proxies while accessing Bitbucket directly.

      Workaround

      The content-type of batch.js is application/javascript. If the issue occurs in the environments behind load balancers/reverse proxies it should be possible to offload the compression to them.

      For HA Proxy, please add to Bitbucket HTTP backend section in haproxy.conf:

      backend bitbucket_http_backend
          compression algo gzip
          compression type application/javascript
      

      and reload the load balancer.

              fdoherty@atlassian.com Frank Doherty
              ttokarczuk@atlassian.com Tomasz Tokarczuk (Inactive)
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