Any way of minifying an already minified file?

[MonoxGG]

Hi all,

Is there a way to minify a CSS/JS file that contains “.min” in the name?

By design, Cloudflare won’t minify files that contain “.min” in the filename such as “…/myscript.min.css” or “…/mysscript.min.js”. I would like to know if it’s possible to bypass/override this rule.

The service and servers I use naturally already minifies and concatenates the files. However, I see still few comments, line returns and so on are still visible. I understand CF won’t uglify and has a very conservative minifying algorithm. It works great for HTML minifying. So I would like to test cf minifying those already minified files. Any ideas of a configuration rule or something?

Thanks!

[WhiteDemonhia]

Hello, Monox!

I don’t think that this is possible.

I would recommend that you simply deactive the minify and compress features on your server and let Cloudflare do the work.

[MonoxGG]

Hi WhiteDemonhia,

Thanks for the quick reply.

Sadly that is not possible. I’m using Odoo online hosting, which means Software as a service, which means I have no access to server configuration. I can only modify their qweb templates, basically html files.

There are some workarounds where I would hardcode into the html template, the unminified files and test the performance, however, I prefer not to do that. Just wanted to see if there’s an out of the box way of using CF’s algorithms.