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title: encode (Caddyfile directive)
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# encode
Encodes responses using the configured encoding(s). A typical use for encoding is compression.
## Syntax
```caddy-d
encode [<matcher>] <formats...> {
# encoding formats
gzip [<level>]
zstd
minimum_length <length>
# response matcher single line syntax
match [header <field> [<value>]] | [status <code...>]
# or response matcher block for multiple conditions
match {
status <code...>
header <field> [<value>]
}
}
```
- **&lt;formats...&gt;** is the list of encoding formats to enable. If multiple encodings are enabled, the encoding is chosen based the request's Accept-Encoding header; if the client has no strong preference (q-factor), then the first supported encoding is used.
- **gzip** <span id="gzip"/> enables Gzip compression, optionally at the specified level.
- **zstd** <span id="zstd"/> enables Zstandard compression.
- **minimum_length** <span id="minimum_length"/> the minimum number of bytes a response should have to be encoded (default: 512).
- **match** <span id="match"/> is a [response matcher](#response-matcher). 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 the [header](/docs/caddyfile/matchers#header) request matcher for the supported syntax.
## Examples
Enable Gzip compression:
```caddy-d
encode gzip
```
Enable Zstandard and Gzip compression (with Zstandard implicitly preferred, since it is first):
```caddy-d
encode zstd gzip
```