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Selectively enable GZIP when HTTP referer matches external URL of GitLab host

Stan Hu requested to merge sh-enable-gzip into master

gzip is disabled for HTTPS for a number of reasons, but Rails has anti-BREACH measures in place for CSRF tokens. In addition, we can mitigate the risk of this attack further by enabling GZIP only when the HTTP referer matches the GitLab origin.

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Edited by Stan Hu

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