Re: [Samtools-devel] Indexing a BAM Index (BAI)

[Dan V. <da...@gm...>]

Apache and nginx typically have a small whitelist of file types which
they'll compress.

For example, mod_deflate uses this whitelist
<http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_deflate.html> of mime types:
text/html text/plain text/xml text/css text/javascript
application/javascript

To enable BAI compression, you'd need to add it to the whitelist.

On Mon Dec 01 2014 at 11:11:49 AM Jim Robinson <jro...@br...>
wrote:

>  I'm not sure this will work with binary files,  I just did a test with
> our apache server and it did not compress the bai file.   However,  I just
> added the "Accept-encoding:gzip" header so if you can configure your server
> to do the compression it should work.   Not everyone will have access or
> permissions to configure their servers, however, so I will keep the .gz
> option.   The compression I'm getting is on the order of 2x-3x so its
> probably worthwhile.
>
>
> Jim
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> Shouldn't that be handled by http? i.e if IGV sets "Accept-encoding: gzip"
> in the request for the bai file, then the remote http server is free to
> respond with "Content-encoding: gzip" and compress the response.
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2014 at 10:01 PM Jim Robinson <jro...@br...>
> wrote:
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