From 322a59b31ce705458fdaccc1579e0c2ee9e27b66 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bj=C3=B6rn=20Fromme?= <bjoern.fromme@ep-reisen.de>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:38:03 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: offer brotli for the assets the webhost now serves
 itself

---
 public/.htaccess | 52 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 52 insertions(+)

diff --git a/public/.htaccess b/public/.htaccess
index 3bc1719d..d47a22eb 100644
--- a/public/.htaccess
+++ b/public/.htaccess
@@ -75,6 +75,58 @@ AddType image/webp .webp
 	</IfModule>
 </IfModule>
 
+# Brotli, where the host has the module. It beats gzip by roughly 15-20% on the theme's
+# minified css/js at no measurable cost, and falls back to the mod_deflate block above for
+# clients that do not announce `br` - which is also what happens wholesale if the module is
+# missing, because the whole block is then skipped.
+#
+# The type list is deliberately the same one mod_deflate gets: `no-gzip` below switches gzip
+# off for every br-capable client, so a type listed for DEFLATE only would reach those
+# clients uncompressed.
+<IfModule mod_brotli.c>
+	# Both filters would otherwise run for a client announcing `br, gzip` and gzip the brotli
+	# output on top of itself. mod_deflate honours `no-gzip`, so brotli wins where it is
+	# offered and gzip keeps everyone else.
+	<IfModule mod_setenvif.c>
+		SetEnvIfNoCase Accept-Encoding "(^|[\s,])br($|[\s,;])" no-gzip
+	</IfModule>
+
+	<IfModule mod_filter.c>
+		AddOutputFilterByType BROTLI_COMPRESS application/atom+xml \
+			application/javascript \
+			application/json \
+			application/ld+json \
+			application/manifest+json \
+			application/rdf+xml \
+			application/rss+xml \
+			application/schema+json \
+			application/vnd.geo+json \
+			application/vnd.ms-fontobject \
+			application/x-font-ttf \
+			application/x-javascript \
+			application/x-web-app-manifest+json \
+			application/xhtml+xml \
+			application/xml \
+			font/eot \
+			font/opentype \
+			image/bmp \
+			image/svg+xml \
+			image/vnd.microsoft.icon \
+			image/x-icon \
+			text/cache-manifest \
+			text/css \
+			text/html \
+			text/javascript \
+			text/plain \
+			text/vcard \
+			text/vnd.rim.location.xloc \
+			text/vtt \
+			text/x-component \
+			text/x-cross-domain-policy \
+			text/xml
+	</IfModule>
+</IfModule>
+
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