OK. I think I have it. I've used -v that shows all the headers in both directions to be sure.
I ask for gzipped content (/internal/bsearch) but it does not come back that way:
# curl -s -v -u elastic:elastic -XPOST 'localhost:5601/internal/bsearch' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' -H 'kbn-xsrf: kibana' -d '{"batch":[{"request":{"params":{"index":"logs*:*","body":{"version":true,"size":500,"sort":[{"@timestamp":{"order":"desc","numeric_type":"date","unmapped_type":"boolean"}}],"aggs":{"2":{"date_histogram":{"field":"@timestamp","fixed_interval":"30s","time_zone":"Europe/Dublin","min_doc_count":1}}},"fields":[],"script_fields":{},"stored_fields":["*"],"_source":{"excludes":[]},"query":{"bool":{"must":[],"filter":[{"match_all":{}},{"range":{"@timestamp":{"gte":"2021-03-18T21:46:39.629Z","lte":"2021-03-18T22:01:39.629Z","format":"strict_date_optional_time"}}}],"should":[],"must_not":[]}},"highlight":{"pre_tags":["@kibana-highlighted-field@"],"post_tags":["@/kibana-highlighted-field@"],"fields":{"*":{}},"fragment_size":2147483647}},"preference":1616104872586}},"options":{"strategy":"ese","isStored":false,"isRestore":false}}]}'
* About to connect() to localhost port 5601 (#0)
* Trying ::1...
* Connection refused
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 5601 (#0)
* Server auth using Basic with user 'elastic'
> POST /internal/bsearch HTTP/1.1
> Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxxx
> User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
> Host: localhost:5601
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: application/json
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> kbn-xsrf: kibana
> Content-Length: 830
>
* upload completely sent off: 830 out of 830 bytes
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< content-type: application/x-ndjson
< connection: keep-alive
< transfer-encoding: chunked
< kbn-name: xxxxxxxxx
< kbn-license-sig: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
< cache-control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
< Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:26:59 GMT
<
{"id":0,"result":{"rawResponse":{"took":133,"timed_out":false,"_shards":{"total":394,"successful":394,"skipped":344,"failed":0},"_clusters":{"total":1,"successful":1,"skipped":0},"hits":{"total":1713499,"max_score":null,"hits":[{...
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(10 KBytes of documents)
On the other hand, if I ask for a different type of request (like Dev Tools) it comes compressed no problem:
# curl -s -v -u elastic:elastic -XPOST 'localhost:5601/api/console/proxy?path=_mapping&method=GET' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate' -H 'kbn-xsrf: kibana'
* About to connect() to localhost port 5601 (#0)
* Trying ::1...
* Connection refused
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 5601 (#0)
* Server auth using Basic with user 'elastic'
> POST /api/console/proxy?path=_mapping&method=GET HTTP/1.1
> Authorization: Basic xxxxxxxx
> User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
> Host: localhost:5601
> Accept: */*
> Content-Type: application/json
> Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
> kbn-xsrf: kibana
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< warning: 299 Elasticsearch-7.11.1-ff17057114c2199c9c1bbecc727003a907c0db7a "this request accesses system indices: [.async-search, .kibana_task_manager_1, .security-7, .tasks], but in a future major version, direct access to system indices will be prevented by default"
< content-type: application/json; charset=UTF-8
< kbn-name: xxxxxxxx
< kbn-license-sig: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
< cache-control: private, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate
< vary: accept-encoding
< content-encoding: gzip
< Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2021 22:42:55 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
< Keep-Alive: timeout=120
< Transfer-Encoding: chunked
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Case open: Kibana not compressing some HTTP responses · Issue #94998 · elastic/kibana · GitHub
Thanks!
