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Created December 14, 2012 23:38
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example of gzipping files manually in Node
var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');
var zlib = require('zlib');
http.createServer(function (req, res) {
// var img = fs.readFileSync('./bird.jpg');
var img = fs.createReadStream('./public/bird.jpg');
// res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'image/jpeg'});
res.writeHead(200, { 'content-encoding': 'gzip' });
// res.end(img, 'binary');
img.pipe(zlib.createGzip({level: 9})).pipe(res);
}).listen(8080, '127.0.0.1');
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