Add GetObject gzip option (#14226)

Enabled with `mc admin config set alias/ api gzip_objects=on`

Standard filtering applies (1K response minimum, not compressed content 
type, not range request, gzip accepted by client).

cmd/api-router.go

@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ func registerAPIRouter(router *mux.Router) {
 			collectAPIStats("getobjectlegalhold", maxClients(gz(httpTraceAll(api.GetObjectLegalHoldHandler))))).Queries("legal-hold", "")
 		// GetObject - note gzip compression is *not* added due to Range requests.
 		router.Methods(http.MethodGet).Path("/{object:.+}").HandlerFunc(
-			collectAPIStats("getobject", maxClients(httpTraceHdrs(api.GetObjectHandler))))
+			collectAPIStats("getobject", maxClients(gz(httpTraceHdrs(api.GetObjectHandler)))))
 		// CopyObject
 		router.Methods(http.MethodPut).Path("/{object:.+}").HeadersRegexp(xhttp.AmzCopySource, ".*?(\\/|%2F).*?").HandlerFunc(
 			collectAPIStats("copyobject", maxClients(gz(httpTraceAll(api.CopyObjectHandler)))))

cmd/handler-api.go

@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ type apiConfig struct {
 	staleUploadsCleanupInterval time.Duration
 	deleteCleanupInterval       time.Duration
 	disableODirect              bool
+	gzipObjects                 bool
 }
 
 const cgroupLimitFile = "/sys/fs/cgroup/memory/memory.limit_in_bytes"
@@ -152,6 +153,7 @@ func (t *apiConfig) init(cfg api.Config, setDriveCounts []int) {
 	t.staleUploadsCleanupInterval = cfg.StaleUploadsCleanupInterval
 	t.deleteCleanupInterval = cfg.DeleteCleanupInterval
 	t.disableODirect = cfg.DisableODirect
+	t.gzipObjects = cfg.GzipObjects
 }
 
 func (t *apiConfig) isDisableODirect() bool {
@@ -161,6 +163,13 @@ func (t *apiConfig) isDisableODirect() bool {
 	return t.disableODirect
 }
 
+func (t *apiConfig) shouldGzipObjects() bool {
+	t.mu.RLock()
+	defer t.mu.RUnlock()
+
+	return t.gzipObjects
+}
+
 func (t *apiConfig) getListQuorum() int {
 	t.mu.RLock()
 	defer t.mu.RUnlock()

cmd/object-handlers.go

@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/google/uuid"
 	"github.com/gorilla/mux"
+	"github.com/klauspost/compress/gzhttp"
 	miniogo "github.com/minio/minio-go/v7"
 	"github.com/minio/minio-go/v7/pkg/credentials"
 	"github.com/minio/minio-go/v7/pkg/encrypt"
@@ -568,6 +569,9 @@ func (api objectAPIHandlers) GetObjectHandler(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Req
 		writeErrorResponse(ctx, w, toAPIError(ctx, err), r.URL)
 		return
 	}
+	if !globalAPIConfig.shouldGzipObjects() {
+		w.Header().Set(gzhttp.HeaderNoCompression, "true")
+	}
 
 	if r.Header.Get(xMinIOExtract) == "true" && strings.Contains(object, archivePattern) {
 		api.getObjectInArchiveFileHandler(ctx, objectAPI, bucket, object, w, r)