From a18e02f358581fe86d97a8768064e83eb6488074 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Micah Elizabeth Scott <micah@misc.name>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2018 12:12:08 -0700
Subject: Only enable gzip for HTML/CSS/JS
No compression on JSON endpoints, in order to protect
from potential compression+encryption data leak attacks (like BREACH)
---
support/nginx/peertube | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
(limited to 'support/nginx')
diff --git a/support/nginx/peertube b/support/nginx/peertube
index 1b698576f..0720dbd97 100644
--- a/support/nginx/peertube
+++ b/support/nginx/peertube
@@ -37,9 +37,11 @@ server {
# resolver $DNS-IP-1 $DNS-IP-2 valid=300s;
# resolver_timeout 5s;
- # Enable compression for JS/CSS/HTML and JSON, for improved client load times
+ # Enable compression for JS/CSS/HTML bundle, for improved client load times.
+ # It might be nice to compress JSON, but leaving that out to protect against potential
+ # compression+encryption information leak attacks like BREACH.
gzip on;
- gzip_types text/plain text/css text/html application/javascript application/json;
+ gzip_types text/css text/html application/javascript;
gzip_vary on;
add_header Strict-Transport-Security "max-age=63072000; includeSubDomains; preload";
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