I have a brotli compressed WASM file main.wasm.br
. I have compressed this manually via CLI.
Currently in my HTML file I have below -
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>Go WASM</title>
<script src="wasm_exec.js"></script>
<script>
const go = new Go();
WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming(fetch("main.wasm"), go.importObject).then((result) => {
go.run(result.instance);
});
</script>
</head>
<body></body>
</html>
This loads the uncompressed WASM file. If I change this to WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming(fetch("main.wasm.br"), go.importObject)
I get below error -
Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Failed to execute 'compile' on 'WebAssembly': Incorrect response MIME type. Expected 'application/wasm'.
How do I load this into my HTML?
Thanks everyone who commented and directed me towards the solution.
So it simply boils down to understanding the basics of HTTP request/response -
Content-Type
controls what is the actual data type of response content.
Content-Encoding
controls what encoding/compression logic have we used to encode the response content.
In my case, I manually compressed the wasm file using gzip and configured NginX as below -
location ~ \.wasm {
default_type 'application/wasm';
add_header 'Content-Encoding' 'gzip';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' '*';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Credentials' 'true';
add_header 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods' 'GET, POST, OPTIONS';
}
You can configure your makefile or build script to compress the wasm everytime you build the project.
Note: I am yet to find a way to request brotli encoding and do similar config for brotli. By default,
fetch
requests withAccept-Encoding: deflate, gzip
only. No brotli.