Gzip vs identity

[msnews]

Hi,

I have nextcloud running on my RPi4 openwrt router. I have to modify “gzip” to “identity” in file nextcloud/lib/private/Http/Client/client.php, i.e.

if (!isset($options[RequestOptions::HEADERS]['Accept-Encoding'])) {
$options[RequestOptions::HEADERS]['Accept-Encoding'] = 'gzip';
}

to

if (!isset($options[RequestOptions::HEADERS]['Accept-Encoding'])) {
$options[RequestOptions::HEADERS]['Accept-Encoding'] = 'identity';
}

Otherwise nextcloud won’t be able to fetch the app list from server.

Is openwrt does not support gzip encoding?

I am using nginx, the nginx configuration has the following code:

   # Enable gzip but do not remove ETag headers
    gzip on;
    gzip_vary on;
    gzip_comp_level 4;
    gzip_min_length 256;
    gzip_proxied expired no-cache no-store private no_last_modified no_etag auth;
    gzip_types application/atom+xml text/javascript application/javascript application/json application/ld+json application/manifest+json application/rss+xml application/vnd.geo+json application/vnd.ms-fontobject application/wasm application/x-font-ttf application/x-web-app-manifest+json application/xhtml+xml application/xml font/opentype image/bmp image/svg+xml image/x-icon text/cache-manifest text/css text/plain text/vcard text/vnd.rim.location.xloc text/vtt text/x-component text/x-cross-domain-policy;

so it seems gzip is support. I am get lost here.

[msnews]

checked the log, it says:

cURL error 61: Unrecognized content encoding type. libcurl understands identity content encodings.

Does that mean openwrt libcurl does not support gzip encoding?

[slh]

Without really looking deeper into curl's packaging, you might need the openssl based variant of curl for that (build time decision).

[msnews]

the curl package config shows:

so the package included in openwrt default does not support gzip. I guess I need rebuild the package by set default to “y”.

EDIT: Compiled a new curl package with LIBCURL_ZLIB included (set default y), installed with force-reinstall (curl and libcurl4), nextcloud works fine with gzip compression.