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I wish Caddy would support brotil, is either gzip or zstd currently.

Just did some quick research and it looks like you can serve pre-compressed static resources in Brotil. See the precompressed option of the file_server directive[1].

The thinking seems to be due to how CPU intensive it is, Brotil is not favoured for on-the-fly compression[2].

If you're really desperate for it though, you could try [this extension][3].

[1] https://caddyserver.com/docs/caddyfile/directives/file_serve...

[2] https://caddy.community/t/caddy-v2-brotli/8805

[3] https://github.com/ueffel/caddy-brotli

The extension is not performance focused, so its slow.

Other webservers support it, mainly Nginx. But since Caddy is written in go, they need a native go port which doesn't exist yet.

> The extension is not performance focused, so its slow.

Yeah, hence my "really desperate" qualifier. I probably should have been more explicit.

Caddy 2 supports brotli static compression out of the box, I ran a test on it just last week with this exact configuration. Dynamic, I'm not sure. That use case doesn't interest me as much.

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