developer-delphi-horse-compression

To compress HTTP responses in a Horse application, register the Compression middleware early in the THorse pipeline to apply GZIP or DEFLATE compression, reducing payload sizes for clients that indicate Accept-Encoding support.

HTTP compression middleware for Horse APIs should be used in production when clients indicate Accept-Encoding support and payload sizes are large enough to benefit from compression, which you can control using threshold-based configurations.

You can configure GZIP or DEFLATE compression in Horse by calling the Compression method overloads, passing a custom threshold value or specifying the desired compression type via the TCompressionType parameter.

Yes, the Horse compression middleware works with THorse routing and other middlewares like Jhonson, but it should be registered as the first middleware in the pipeline to ensure responses are compressed early.

The correct pipeline order for Horse compression middleware is to register it as the first middleware, placing it before other middlewares like Jhonson, to ensure HTTP responses are compressed early in the pipeline.