docs: encode and file_server enhancements (content negotiation) (#148)

* docs: encode: add new subdirectives

* minimum_length
* prefer
* match

* docs: file_server: add precompressed subdirectives
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@ -12,13 +12,56 @@ Encodes responses using the configured encoding(s). A typical use for encoding i
encode [<matcher>] <formats...> {
gzip [<level>]
zstd
minimum_length <length>
prefer <formats...>
# response matcher single line syntax
match [header <field> [<value>]] | [status <code...>]
# or response matcher block
match {
status <code...>
header <field> [<value>]
}
}
```
- **&lt;formats...&gt;** is the list of encoding formats to enable.
- **gzip** enables Gzip compression, optionally at the specified level.
- **zstd** enables Zstandard compression.
- **minimum_length** the minimum number of bytes a response should have to be encoded. (Default is 512)
- **prefer** is the ordered list of enabled encoding formats to determine, which encoding to choose if the client has no strong preference (via q-factors in the `Accept-Encoding` header).
If **prefer** is not specified the first supported encoding from the `Accept-Encoding` header is used.
- **match** is a [Response matcher](#responsematcher). Only matching Responses are encoded. The default looks like this:
```caddy-d
match {
header Content-Type text/*
header Content-Type application/json*
header Content-Type application/javascript*
header Content-Type application/xhtml+xml*
header Content-Type application/atom+xml*
header Content-Type application/rss+xml*
header Content-Type image/svg+xml*
}
```
## Response matcher
**Response matchers** can be used to filter (or classify) responses by specific criteria.
### status
```caddy-d
status <code...>
```
By HTTP status code.
- **&lt;code...&gt;** is a list of HTTP status codes. Special cases are `2xx`, `3xx`, ... which match against all status codes in the range of 200-299, 300-399, ... respectively
### header
See Request matcher [header](/docs/caddyfile/matchers#header).
## Examples
@ -34,3 +77,12 @@ Enable Zstandard and Gzip compression:
encode zstd gzip
```
Enable Zstandard and Gzip compression and prefer Zstandard over Gzip:
```caddy-d
encode zstd gzip {
prefer zstd gzip
}
```
Without the **prefer** setting, a `--compressed` HTTP request via [curl](https://curl.se/) (meaning `Accept-Encoding: deflate, gzip, br, zstd` in curl >=7.72.0) would be served with Gzip encoding, because it is the first accepted encoding that both client and server support. With the **prefer** setting Zstandard encoding is served, because the client has no preference but the server (caddy) has.