Apache Tomcat 9 Configuration Reference

This must be org.apache.coyote.http2.Http2Protocol.

By default Tomcat will ignore all trailer headers when processing HTTP/2 connections. For a header to be processed, it must be added to this comma-separated list of header names.

The value is a comma separated list of MIME types for which HTTP compression may be used. The default value is text/html,text/xml,text/plain,text/css,text/javascript,application/javascript,application/json,application/xml .

The HTTP/2 protocol may use compression in an attempt to save server bandwidth. The acceptable values for the parameter is "off" (disable compression), "on" (allow compression, which causes text data to be compressed), "force" (forces compression in all cases), or a numerical integer value (which is equivalent to "on", but specifies the minimum amount of data before the output is compressed). If the content-length is not known and compression is set to "on" or more aggressive, the output will also be compressed. If not specified, this attribute is set to "off".

Note: There is a tradeoff between using compression (saving your bandwidth) and using the sendfile feature (saving your CPU cycles). If the connector supports the sendfile feature, e.g. the NIO2 connector, using sendfile will take precedence over compression. The symptoms will be that static files greater that 48 Kb will be sent uncompressed. You can turn off sendfile by setting useSendfile attribute of the protocol, as documented below, or change the sendfile usage threshold in the configuration of the DefaultServlet in the default conf/web.xml or in the web.xml of your web application.

If compression is set to "on" then this attribute may be used to specify the minimum amount of data before the output is compressed. If not specified, this attribute is defaults to "2048".

Controls the initial size of the flow control window for streams that Tomcat advertises to clients. If not specified, the default value of 65535 is used.

The time, in milliseconds, that Tomcat will wait between HTTP/2 frames when there is no active Stream before closing the connection. Negative values will be treated as an infinite timeout. If not specified, a default value of 20000 will be used.

The controls the maximum number of streams for any one connection that can be allocated threads from the container thread pool. If more streams are active than threads are available, those streams will have to wait for a stream to become available. If not specified, the default value of 20 will be used.

The controls the maximum number of active streams permitted for any one connection. If a client attempts to open more active streams than this limit, the stream will be reset with a STREAM_REFUSED error. If not specified, the default value of 100 will be used.

The maximum number of headers in a request that is allowed by the container. A request that contains more headers than the specified limit will be rejected. A value of less than 0 means no limit. If not specified, a default of 100 is used.

The maximum total size for all headers in a request that is allowed by the container. Total size for a header is calculated as the uncompressed size of the header name in bytes, plus the uncompressed size of the header value in bytes plus an HTTP/2 overhead of 3 bytes per header. A request that contains a set of headers that requires more than the specified limit will be rejected. A value of less than 0 means no limit. If not specified, a default of 8192 is used.

The maximum number of trailer headers in a request that is allowed by the container. A request that contains more trailer headers than the specified limit will be rejected. A value of less than 0 means no limit. If not specified, a default of 100 is used.

The maximum total size for all trailer headers in a request that is allowed by the container. Total size for a header is calculated as the uncompressed size of the header name in bytes, plus the uncompressed size of the header value in bytes plus an HTTP/2 overhead of 3 bytes per header. A request that contains a set of trailer headers that requires more than the specified limit will be rejected. A value of less than 0 means no limit. If not specified, a default of 8192 is used.

This flag configures whether resources with a stong ETag will be considered for compression. If true, resources with a strong ETag will not be compressed. The default value is true.

This attribute is deprecated. It will be removed in Tomcat 10 onwards where it will be hard-coded to true.

The value is a regular expression (using java.util.regex) matching the user-agent header of HTTP clients for which compression should not be used, because these clients, although they do advertise support for the feature, have a broken implementation. The default value is an empty String (regexp matching disabled).

The threshold below which the payload size of a non-final CONTINUATION frame will trigger an increase in the overhead count (see overheadCountFactor). The overhead count will be increased by overheadContinuationThreshold/payloadSize so that the smaller the CONTINUATION frame, the greater the increase in the overhead count. A value of zero or less disables the checking of non-final CONTINUATION frames. If not specified, a default value of 1024 will be used.

The factor to apply when counting overhead frames to determine if a connection has too high an overhead and should be closed. The overhead count starts at -10 * overheadCountFactor. The count is decreased by 20 for each data frame sent or received and each headers frame received. The count is increased by the overheadCountFactor for each setting received, priority frame received and ping received. If the overhead count exceeds zero, the connection is closed. A value of less than 1 disables this protection. In normal usage a value of approximately 20 or higher will close the connection before any streams can complete. If not specified, a default value of 10 will be used.

The threshold below which the average payload size of the current and previous non-final DATA frames will trigger an increase in the overhead count (see overheadCountFactor). The overhead count will be increased by overheadDataThreshold/average so that the smaller the average, the greater the increase in the overhead count. A value of zero or less disables the checking of non-final DATA frames. If not specified, a default value of 1024 will be used.

The threshold below which the average size of current and previous WINDOW_UPDATE frame will trigger an increase in the overhead count (see overheadCountFactor). The overhead count will be increased by overheadWindowUpdateThreshold/average so that the smaller the average, the greater the increase in the overhead count. A value of zero or less disables the checking of WINDOW_UPDATE frames. If not specified, a default value of 1024 will be used.

The time, in milliseconds, that Tomcat will wait for additional data when a partial HTTP/2 frame has been received. Negative values will be treated as an infinite timeout. If not specified, a default value of 5000 will be used.

The time, in milliseconds, that Tomcat will wait for additional data frames to arrive for the stream when an application is performing a blocking I/O read and additional data is required. Negative values will be treated as an infinite timeout. If not specified, a default value of 20000 will be used.

The time, in milliseconds, that Tomcat will wait for additional window update frames to arrive for the stream and/or connection when an application is performing a blocking I/O write and the stream and/or connection flow control window is too small for the write to complete. Negative values will be treated as an infinite timeout. If not specified, a default value of 20000 will be used.

Use this boolean attribute to enable or disable sendfile capability. The default value is true.

This setting is ignored, and the sendfile capability disabled, if the useAsyncIO attribute of the associated Connector is set to false.

The HTTP/2 sendfile capability uses MappedByteBuffer which is known to cause file locking on Windows.

The time, in milliseconds, that Tomcat will wait to write additional data when an HTTP/2 frame has been partially written. Negative values will be treated as an infinite timeout. If not specified, a default value of 5000 will be used.