From c715c2cbcc12f5dfe6f4dfc9f4475b2febe07d5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Gabriel A. Devenyi" <gdevenyi@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2026 09:21:45 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] perf: compress api responses in the bundled Caddy

The api does not compress its responses. The default match list of encode omits
application/x-msgpack, the type of the instrument records list. Mitigates #1714.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.2 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01W53iUShuoPRdGy8vrks2nm
---
 Caddyfile | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Caddyfile b/Caddyfile
index 4a2648013..173590d6d 100644
--- a/Caddyfile
+++ b/Caddyfile
@@ -8,6 +8,16 @@
 	}
 
 	handle_path /api/* {
+		# The api does not compress its responses. A match is given because the default list of encode
+		# omits application/x-msgpack, the type of the largest response (the instrument records list).
+		encode {
+			zstd
+			gzip
+			match {
+				header Content-Type application/json*
+				header Content-Type application/x-msgpack*
+			}
+		}
 		reverse_proxy api
 	}