# Kibana - Disable gzip compression

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-disable-gzip-compression/85611>\
**Category:** Kibana\
**Created:** [May 12, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-disable-gzip-compression/85611 "2017-05-12T18:26:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![locguero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@locguero](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/locguero)\
**Post date:** [May 12, 2017, 6:26pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-disable-gzip-compression/85611/1 "2017-05-12T18:26:37Z")

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We are trying to use IIS ARR to do reverse proxy of kibana to add some level of security. We are trying to disable content compression (content-encoding: gzip) to allow us to implement a work around. I see that in hapi that is configured under connection properties but I don't see where I could override the default value of compression:true. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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**Author:** ![Brandon\_Kobel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brandon_kobel/32/14829_2.png) [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)\
**Post date:** [May 17, 2017, 6:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-disable-gzip-compression/85611/2 "2017-05-17T18:41:58Z")

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Hey @locguero, Kibana/Hapi should be choosing whether to use content compression based on the [Accept-Encoding HTTP header](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Accept-Encoding) have you all tried not including that header for the requests between the reverse proxy and kibana itself?

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**Author:** ![locguero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ed655f/32.png) [@locguero](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/locguero)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-disable-gzip-compression/85611/3 "2017-05-22T19:46:39Z")

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Thank you Brandon. We were able to get around this issue. We were trying to use a different base path in the proxy and that was causing issues and thus the need for changing compression. We decided to use the same base url and just a different port on the proxy. We are good now. Thank you.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 19, 2017, 7:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-disable-gzip-compression/85611/4 "2017-06-19T19:46:42Z")

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