`compression.rs` does not exclude already-compressed content types

[hman38705]

Labels: backend, performance
Priority: Low

Description

services/api/src/compression.rs enables gzip/brotli compression for responses. Compressing already-compressed content types (e.g., image/jpeg, image/png, application/zip) wastes CPU without reducing size.

Acceptance Criteria

• Compression middleware excludes binary/already-compressed MIME types
• Compression only applied to text-based responses (application/json, text/*)

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