I know it is frowned upon to ask multiple questions in stackoverflow, but I don't understand enough to break it down.
I am running a flask application behind waitress behind caddy (https). I want to add gzip compression now.
My question is:
- Who is doing what what? Do I really need waitress if I am using caddy?
- I found
flask-squeeze, andflask-compress. How is this working? Isn't gzip compression a feature in HTTP itself (not the application) that must be negotiated with the client and therefore caddy must be involved? How is this forwarded to flask (through waitress if needed?) - What are
X-*headers and header forwarding, mentioned here?. Are we just "moving horizontally" across the internet stack (transforming the connection only, not moving up or down the internet stack)?