Tomcat JSR356 Websocket - disable permessage-deflate compression

Question

I\'m, working on a Java servlet which runs on a Tomcat 8.0.18 server and uses the JSR356 websocket API to communicate with a browser. By default Tomcat uses the \"permessage

Answer 1

Please try to add jvm option

-Dorg.apache.tomcat.websocket.DISABLE_BUILTIN_EXTENSIONS=true

to catalina.bat (for windows) or catalina.sh (for unix like OS).

e.g. add this line at the beginning of catalina.sh

CATALINA_OPTS="-Dorg.apache.tomcat.websocket.DISABLE_BUILTIN_EXTENSIONS=true"

add this line at the beginning of catalina.bat

set CATALINA_OPTS="-Dorg.apache.tomcat.websocket.DISABLE_BUILTIN_EXTENSIONS=true"