Adds gzip support by default

This commit adds Flask-Compress to the stack, an excellent module that
makes the site load faster. This also adds and amends the default
siteconfig

3 files changed, 17 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index a753d36..63d0835 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -6,3 +6,4 @@ MarkupSafe==2.0.1
 pip==20.3.4
 setuptools==44.1.1
 Werkzeug==2.0.1
+Flask-Compress==1.10.1
diff --git a/server.py b/server.py
index 1908ad3..8937d4b 100644
--- a/server.py
+++ b/server.py
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 import os
 from flask import Flask
 from siteconfig import siteconfig
+from flask_compress import Compress
 
 app = Flask(__name__)
+compress = Compress()
 
 from views import *
 
@@ -30,9 +32,10 @@ def setup():
 
     app.config.update({'DOMAIN': siteconfig.DOMAIN})
     app.config.update({'HOME_TITLE': siteconfig.HOME_TITLE})
-
+    app.config.update({'COMPRESS_MIMETYPES': siteconfig.COMPRESS_MIMETYPES})
 
 # Setup needs to come first to be compatible with wsgi
 setup()
 if __name__ == "__main__":
+    compress.init_app(app)
     app.run()
diff --git a/siteconfig.py b/siteconfig.py
index 3a0229f..fa73b46 100644
--- a/siteconfig.py
+++ b/siteconfig.py
@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
 class siteconfig:
     # REQUIRED SETTINGS#
-    
+
     DOMAIN = "example.net"                          # Your site here!
-    HOME_TITLE = "WELCOME"                          # "HELLO WORLD!"
+    HOME_TITLE = "WELCOME"                          # Goes right under
+                                                    # your site
     LINKS_FILE = ".links"                           # ".lnx" if you like
     DESC_FILE = ".description"                      # ".desc"
-    DEFAULT_MIMETYPE = "application/octet-stream"   # "text/plain"
-
+    DEFAULT_MIMETYPE = "application/octet-stream"   
+    # ^This usually prompts a browser to download a file if the mime
+    # type is unknown. A good alternative might be "text/plain"
+    
+    # Add your desired mimetypes to the csv file
     MIMETYPES = {}
     with open('mimetypes.csv') as f:
         for line in f.readlines():
@@ -21,5 +25,7 @@ class siteconfig:
     MAIN_SITE_DIRS = None  # ["dir1", "dir2", "dir3"]
     # Set a custom secret key. If not set, it will be generated
     # Most of the time, you don't need to set this!
-    SECRET_KEY = None # Something random. 
-
+    SECRET_KEY = None # Something random.
+    # Special option for Flask Compress
+    # see here https://pypi.org/project/Flask-Compress/
+    COMPRESS_MIMETYPES = list(MIMETYPES.values())