Brotli compression

[itayB]

Hi,

We are using compress_response=True in tornado.web.Application to use gzip compression for requests arriving in our servers.
I wonder if there's a plan to support Brotli compression as well?

Thanks

[stalkerg]

Even gzip on the python side not so effective... much better using it on Nginx or similar (if it will support brotli).
At the same time, I suppose it will be easy to implement.

[bdarnell]

I don't have any plans to work on this, but I think it could be useful. I wouldn't want to add a third-party dependency for it, though, so I think the right way to go about it would be to figure out how to parameterize things so that you could plug in an external compression module.