Enable HTTP compression for uptime check HTTP requests.

[flyicn]

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🏷️ Feature Request Type

Settings

🔖 Feature description

currently, uptimekuma sends http request without "accept-encoding" header.

which means, response is received without compression, in plain text, which can waste bandwidth.

✔️ Solution

Add the "Accept-Encoding: gzip" header to HTTP request headers globally by default, and provide an option to disable it. It would be great to support other compression methods besides gzip(br, zstd)

https://caniuse.com/zstd
https://caniuse.com/?search=brotli

❓ Alternatives

The current workaround is to manually add an HTTP request header for every single monitor, as shown below.

Decompression is done automatically for gzip without modifying uptimekuma (but not for br or zstd).

📝 Additional Context

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[CommanderStorm]

zstd and brotli might not be avaliable in the version of node (node 16) that we have currently online in v1.23.x..

Bumping node is a major version bump and thus has to wait for #4500