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ui: stop building a Brotli variant of index.html - #5724
Since #5133, index.html is served Brotli-encoded to browsers. Requests made through kubectl proxy go through the Kubernetes API server service proxy, which rewrites links in text/html responses. That code (apimachinery pkg/util/proxy/transport.go, rewriteResponse) only handles gzip and deflate, so the page fails to load. JS/CSS are not affected because the proxy only touches text/html.
The Brotli variant of HTML is no longer built, so it is not embedded in the binary:
ui/app/vite.config.mjs and ui/mantine-ui/vite.config.mjs: HTML is compressed with gzip only (a second compression() entry with include: /\.html$/). JS, CSS, fonts, icons and the license file keep both .gz and .br.
ui/web.go: Brotli is only selected when the .br variant exists. Without this, a browser advertising br would get a 404 for index.html, because the existing code only tries the variant it picked. The rest of the serving logic is unchanged.
Testing:
Built both UIs locally with vite build: dist/elm and dist/mantine contain index.html.gz only, every other compressible asset has .gz and .br.
ui/web_test.go: TestWebRoutes now expects exactly one (.gz) variant for HTML, and a new browser subtest sends Chrome's Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstd to every route, expecting gzip for HTML and br for the rest. TestSelectEncodingBrotliUnavailable covers the selector when no .br exists. Against an upstream build (HTML .br present) the tests fail, and the upstream serving code returns 404 for / with the new build.
go test ./ui/... ./api/..., go vet ./ui/, golangci-lint run ./ui/....
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[BUGFIX] UI: Stop building a Brotli-encoded `index.html`, so the UI loads again through `kubectl proxy`. JS and CSS are still served with Brotli.
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HTML assets are now compressed with gzip only in both UI builds. The asset handler selects Brotli only when a Brotli variant exists. Tests cover encoding selection and HTTP responses for assets.
Changes: HTML content encoding
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Summary
HTML asset compression ui/app/vite.config.mjs, ui/mantine-ui/vite.config.mjs
Both build configurations exclude HTML from their existing compression rules. Each adds a separate gzip-only HTML rule.
Encoding selection and route tests ui/web.go, ui/web_test.go
selectEncoding now receives Brotli availability, and the handler checks for a .br variant before selecting Brotli. Tests cover selection with Brotli enabled and disabled, HTML’s gzip-only variant, and browser-style encoding headers on routes.
prometheus/alertmanager#5722 — The issue reports that the UI fails through kubectl proxy; this change serves HTML without Brotli, which addresses the proxy’s unsupported HTML encoding.
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The title clearly identifies the main change: stopping the Brotli build for index.html.
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The description follows the repository template, identifies issue #5722, documents the bugfix, testing, user-facing behavior, and release note.
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Only direct linked issue #5722 applies. Its coding requirement is that the web UI loads through kubectl proxy, which fails when HTML is Brotli-encoded. Reviewed head ui/web.go: `selectEncoding(hea…
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The whole-PR diff (merge base to reviewed head) changes ui/web.go, ui/web_test.go, ui/app/vite.config.mjs, and ui/mantine-ui/vite.config.mjs. The web.go and web_test.go changes directly im…
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Only direct linked issue #5722 applies. Its coding requirement is that the web UI loads through kubectl proxy, which fails when HTML is Brotli-encoded. Reviewed head ui/web.go: selectEncoding(header, brotliAvailable bool) returns encBrotli only when brotliAvailable is true. Register sets brotliAvailable from fs.Stat(appFS, filePath+".br"). HTML has no .br variant, so the selector returns encGzip when the client accepts gzip and encNone otherwise. The encNone path decompresses the .gz file and serves identity. Non-HTML assets keep Brotli when a .br file exists. ui/web_test.go covers this: TestSelectEncodingBrotliUnavailable checks the selector without Brotli. walkFiles requires exactly one .gz variant for .html. The new browser subtest sends gzip, deflate, br, zstd and expects Content-Encoding: gzip for HTML and br for other compressed assets. The repository does not test the Kubernetes proxy itself. The PR states the proxy rewrites only gzip and deflate for text/html; the code and tests establish that HTML is served gzip-encoded, which is the requirement. The PR description names differ from the earlier PR summary (TestHTMLIsNotBrotliEncoded, TestSelectEncodingWithoutBrotli). The diff contains the tests described above, so this difference does not affect the verdict. The review comment that Alertmanager should not change encoding does not change the issue requirement. Earlier PASS conclusion is still supported after the head change.
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The whole-PR diff (merge base to reviewed head) changes ui/web.go, ui/web_test.go, ui/app/vite.config.mjs, and ui/mantine-ui/vite.config.mjs. The web.go and web_test.go changes directly implement and test the HTML encoding rule for #5722. The vite config changes stop Brotli output for HTML and keep gzip for HTML. They keep Brotli for JS, CSS, and other compressible assets, which matches the brotliAvailable check in web.go. The vite changes are supporting build changes for the same requirement. The web.go change also uses fs.Stat on appFS, which is an fs.FS, so it compiles. No unrelated functional change is present.
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TestHTMLIsNotBrotliEncoded checks only the status, Content-Encoding, and Vary headers. Brotli bytes labelled gzip would pass. Decode the body and compare it with the uncompressed response. Add the compress/gzip and io imports.
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Update TestHTMLIsNotBrotliEncoded to verify the response body is valid gzip and
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- Around line 93-95: Update TestHTMLIsNotBrotliEncoded to verify the response
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Alertmanager doesn't just blindly responds with brotli encoded data, it will only do so if the encoding is advertised. So this seems like an upstream problem? Every application will have this issue, the proxy needs to strip the encodings then or not? I don't think we can adjust every Alertmanager to a broken proxy.
The fix here is definitely wrong. If we don't want to serve html brotli encoded, it needs to be remoted from Alertmanager entirely.
Proxies that rewrite HTML, such as the Kubernetes API server proxy used
by `kubectl proxy`, only understand gzip and deflate. Since prometheus#5133 the UI
is served Brotli-encoded to browsers, which breaks the page behind such
a proxy.
Only compress HTML with gzip at build time, for both the Elm and Mantine
UIs. JS, CSS and other assets keep their Brotli variant. When a file has
no Brotli variant, the server now falls back to gzip or identity
according to Accept-Encoding instead of returning 404.
Signed-off-by: Lucas Barros <lucasbarros.kam@gmail.com>
Fair point, it's really the proxy's limitation: it only knows gzip/deflate when rewriting HTML, and Alertmanager is doing the right thing by honoring Accept-Encoding.
I reworked the PR along the lines you suggested. The Brotli variant of index.html is no longer built (both vite configs compress HTML with gzip only), so it's not in the binary at all. JS/CSS and the other assets keep Brotli, the HTML is only ~300 bytes gzipped so the cost is negligible. The HTML-specific check in web.go is gone. The only change left there is that Brotli is picked only when a .br file exists, otherwise a browser sending br would get a 404 for /.
Does that work for you, or would you rather drop Brotli entirely?
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benchstatto compare benchmarksWhich user-facing changes does this PR introduce?
Since #5133,
index.htmlis served Brotli-encoded to browsers. Requests made throughkubectl proxygo through the Kubernetes API server service proxy, which rewrites links intext/htmlresponses. That code (apimachinerypkg/util/proxy/transport.go,rewriteResponse) only handlesgzipanddeflate, so the page fails to load. JS/CSS are not affected because the proxy only touchestext/html.The Brotli variant of HTML is no longer built, so it is not embedded in the binary:
ui/app/vite.config.mjsandui/mantine-ui/vite.config.mjs: HTML is compressed with gzip only (a secondcompression()entry withinclude: /\.html$/). JS, CSS, fonts, icons and the license file keep both.gzand.br.ui/web.go: Brotli is only selected when the.brvariant exists. Without this, a browser advertisingbrwould get a 404 forindex.html, because the existing code only tries the variant it picked. The rest of the serving logic is unchanged.Testing:
vite build:dist/elmanddist/mantinecontainindex.html.gzonly, every other compressible asset has.gzand.br.ui/web_test.go:TestWebRoutesnow expects exactly one (.gz) variant for HTML, and a newbrowsersubtest sends Chrome'sAccept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br, zstdto every route, expectinggzipfor HTML andbrfor the rest.TestSelectEncodingBrotliUnavailablecovers the selector when no.brexists. Against an upstream build (HTML.brpresent) the tests fail, and the upstream serving code returns 404 for/with the new build.go test ./ui/... ./api/...,go vet ./ui/,golangci-lint run ./ui/....I used an AI assistant (Claude Code) to help investigate and draft this change; I reviewed and tested it myself.