Need Step-by-Step Overview for Compression on Tomcat

Question

Need Step-by-Step Overview for Compression on Tomcat 7 ... I\'ve been at this for days. Particularly interested in compressing text/xml in response from a servlet, but would als

Answer 1

Did you restart Tomcat after editing server.xml file ? Did you check the logs (logs/catalina.out) to see if there is any error on server startup ? (ie. typo in the config files)

compression="on"

should work.

Maybe webpagetest.org doesn't support gzip compression. Why don't you use Chrome Developper Tools (F12, you can see headers in the Network tab) ? or Firefox Web Console (Ctrl+Shift+K) ?