Impossible to serve HTML larger than 1kB ?

[codegenieapp]

Impossible to serve HTML larger than 1kB ?

[brettstack]

This is due to gzip which only triggers after 1KB. You need to configure binary data correctly.

Add in text/html to your binaryMimeTypes; ensure text/html is configured on your API Gateway API binary mime types and redeploy.

[BerndWessels]

Thanks @brettstack
Where and how in API Gateway (I'm using the console or terraform) do the mime types have to be configured for that to work?

[brettstack]

I'm not familiar with Terraform API. In Console you can click on your API and then click Binary Support in the left side nav. Ensure the list matches what you specify in binaryMimeTypes. Alternatively, specify / in API Gateway console and list your content types just in your Lambda function. Support for / in the aws-serverless-express lib is coming #70

[BerndWessels]

Thank you @brettstack

That is working now.

Maybe we can add a more detailed documentation to the README. I'm pretty sure this is a common problem people will run into.

By the way, if the page body is actually less than 1kB, would that still work?

[brettstack]

Yes it will continue to work for <1KB.

Agreed, the documentation can be improved. I will do that along with #70.