Use compression middleware (#3343)

Cargo.lock

@@ -122,10 +122,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "ahash 0.8.3",
  "base64 0.21.2",
  "bitflags 1.3.2",
+ "brotli",
  "bytes",
  "bytestring",
  "derive_more",
  "encoding_rs",
+ "flate2",
  "futures-core",
  "h2",
  "http",
@@ -143,6 +145,7 @@ dependencies = [
  "tokio",
  "tokio-util 0.7.4",
  "tracing",
+ "zstd",
 ]
 
 [[package]]
@@ -361,6 +364,21 @@ dependencies = [
  "memchr",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "alloc-no-stdlib"
+version = "2.0.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "cc7bb162ec39d46ab1ca8c77bf72e890535becd1751bb45f64c597edb4c8c6b3"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "alloc-stdlib"
+version = "0.2.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "94fb8275041c72129eb51b7d0322c29b8387a0386127718b096429201a5d6ece"
+dependencies = [
+ "alloc-no-stdlib",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "android-tzdata"
 version = "0.1.1"
@@ -714,6 +732,27 @@ dependencies = [
  "cipher",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "brotli"
+version = "3.3.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "a1a0b1dbcc8ae29329621f8d4f0d835787c1c38bb1401979b49d13b0b305ff68"
+dependencies = [
+ "alloc-no-stdlib",
+ "alloc-stdlib",
+ "brotli-decompressor",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "brotli-decompressor"
+version = "2.3.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "4b6561fd3f895a11e8f72af2cb7d22e08366bebc2b6b57f7744c4bda27034744"
+dependencies = [
+ "alloc-no-stdlib",
+ "alloc-stdlib",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "bumpalo"
 version = "3.11.1"
@@ -766,6 +805,9 @@ name = "cc"
 version = "1.0.73"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "2fff2a6927b3bb87f9595d67196a70493f627687a71d87a0d692242c33f58c11"
+dependencies = [
+ "jobserver",
+]
 
 [[package]]
 name = "cesu8"
@@ -2470,6 +2512,15 @@ version = "0.3.0"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "8eaf4bc02d17cbdd7ff4c7438cafcdf7fb9a4613313ad11b4f8fefe7d3fa0130"
 
+[[package]]
+name = "jobserver"
+version = "0.1.26"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "936cfd212a0155903bcbc060e316fb6cc7cbf2e1907329391ebadc1fe0ce77c2"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+]
+
 [[package]]
 name = "js-sys"
 version = "0.3.60"
@@ -6524,3 +6575,33 @@ name = "zeroize"
 version = "1.5.7"
 source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
 checksum = "c394b5bd0c6f669e7275d9c20aa90ae064cb22e75a1cad54e1b34088034b149f"
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zstd"
+version = "0.12.3+zstd.1.5.2"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "76eea132fb024e0e13fd9c2f5d5d595d8a967aa72382ac2f9d39fcc95afd0806"
+dependencies = [
+ "zstd-safe",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zstd-safe"
+version = "6.0.5+zstd.1.5.4"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d56d9e60b4b1758206c238a10165fbcae3ca37b01744e394c463463f6529d23b"
+dependencies = [
+ "libc",
+ "zstd-sys",
+]
+
+[[package]]
+name = "zstd-sys"
+version = "2.0.8+zstd.1.5.5"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "5556e6ee25d32df2586c098bbfa278803692a20d0ab9565e049480d52707ec8c"
+dependencies = [
+ "cc",
+ "libc",
+ "pkg-config",
+]

Cargo.toml

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ diesel_migrations = "2.1.0"
 diesel-async = "0.3.1"
 serde = { version = "1.0.164", features = ["derive"] }
 serde_with = "1.14.0"
-actix-web = { version = "4.3.1", default-features = false, features = ["macros", "rustls"] }
+actix-web = { version = "4.3.1", default-features = false, features = ["macros", "rustls", "compress-brotli", "compress-gzip", "compress-zstd"] }
 tracing = "0.1.37"
 tracing-actix-web = { version = "0.6.2", default-features = false }
 tracing-error = "0.2.0"

src/lib.rs

@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ pub async fn start_lemmy_server() -> Result<(), LemmyError> {
         // This is the default log format save for the usage of %{r}a over %a to guarantee to record the client's (forwarded) IP and not the last peer address, since the latter is frequently just a reverse proxy
         "%{r}a '%r' %s %b '%{Referer}i' '%{User-Agent}i' %T",
       ))
+      .wrap(middleware::Compress::default())
       .wrap(cors_config)
       .wrap(TracingLogger::<QuieterRootSpanBuilder>::new())
       .app_data(Data::new(context.clone()))