We have 3 HTTP Compression available in IIS 7.0
What are the difference between these three? Which is the best compression for security and performance?
A:
There is no “best” compression. All algorithms have different properties, such as compression/decompression speed, memory consumption while compressing/decompressing, or compression ratio. It all depends on your requirements. Nobody can tell you what is best for you (unless you tell us a lot more about your requirements).
Bombe
2009-07-20 09:57:16
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A:
gzip and deflate both use the deflate algorithm, but gzip adds a few bytes in headers. bzip2 gives better compression, but is much slower.
Security has nothing to do with it as the compression needs to be reversible. If security is an issue your best bet is to use HTTPS.
Draemon
2009-07-20 10:12:15
Hope you don't mind but I elaborated on why security is nothing to do with compression.
Garry Shutler
2009-07-20 10:40:52
Fine by me :)
Draemon
2009-07-20 10:48:05