http accept encoding - How to return gzipped content with AWS API Gateway

Question

We have developed an application that offers serveral rest services and supports Accept-Encoding header to return compressed content through Content-Encoding:gzip header value.

This application is deployed on ec2 instances on aws and when we send a request with Accept-Encoding value set the response is correctly built.

We want to expose this api by using api gateway but it is just working for not compressing requests. When we send a request asking for gzipped content the Content-Encoding header is set correctly but the response content is corrupt.

Do we have to set some special parameter or configuration in integration response or method response steps?

Regards.

Answer 1

Since Dec 19, 2017. AWS API Gateway has encoding support.

After the API is created, just go to Settings and select Content Encoding Enable.

Also here is the AWS official release post.