Before reading anything else, please take time to read the original thread. A quick simple overview: A .xfdl file is a is a gzipped .xml file which has then been encoded in base64. I wish to de-encode the .xfdl into xml which I can then modify and then re-encode back into a .xfdl file. xfdl > xml.gz > xml > xml.gz > xfdl I have been...
I have a silverlight 2 beta 2 application that accesses a WCF web service. Because of this, it currently can only use basicHttp binding. The webservice will return fairly large amounts of XML data. This seems fairly wasteful from a bandwidth usage standpoint as the response, if zipped, would be smaller by a factor of 5 (I actually pas...
I need to periodically download, extract and save the contents of http://data.dot.state.mn.us/dds/det_sample.xml.gz to disk. Anyone have experience downloading gzipped files with C#? ...
I'm trying to find the best way to speed up the delivery of the static images that compose the design of an mvc site. The images are not gzipped, nor cached in the server or on the client (with content expire). Options are: Find why images are not cached and gzipped direcly from IIS6 Write a specialized http handler Register a special...
I have an ASP.NET webforms application (3.5 SP1) that I'm working on, and attempting to enable gzip fpr HTML and CSS that comes down the pipe. I'm using this implementation (and tried a few others that hook into Application_BeginRequest), and it seems to be corrupting the external CSS file that the pages use, but intermittently...suddenl...
The most common method for corrupting compressed files is to inadvertently do an ASCII-mode FTP transfer, which causes a many-to-one trashing of CR and/or LF characters. Obviously, there is information loss, and the best way to fix this problem is to transfer again, in FTP binary mode. However, if the original is lost, and it's importa...
I am serving all content through apache with Content-Encoding: zip but that compresses on the fly. A good amount of my content is static files on the disk. I want to gzip the files beforehand rather than compressing them every time they are requested. This is something that, I believe, mod_gzip did in Apache 1.x automatically, but jus...
I want to write some app, that communicates with web application, and acts something like human user (BOT). What programming language would you suggest to use? Things that app have to do: Send and receive information via http (GET and POST methods) Ability to change any http field (User-Agent, Content-Type etc.). Deal with received d...
I need to be able to GZip compress a file in an Excel VBA function. Specifically I need to be able to use the 'deflate' algorithm. Is there a way to do this without having to exec a command line application? With no dependency on external tools the code will be more robust. Ideally the code would make use of pre-installed VBA or COM li...
Anyone had any experience with httpZip product (ISAPI - based compression for IIS). I'm wondering if this is worthwhile compared to the native compression in IIS6... Pros / Cons / pitfalls of either approach? ...
I have a large number of files in a .tar.gz archive. Checking the file type with the command file SMS.tar.gz gives the response gzip compressed data - deflate method , max compression When I try to extract the archive with gunzip, after a delay I receive the message gunzip: SMS.tar.gz: unexpected end of file Is there any way to...
We recently switched some of our sites from deflate to gzip and noticed a significant increase in cpu load on our servers. ...
I have an embedded webserver that has a total of 2 Megs of space on it. Normally you gzip files for the clients benefit, but this would save us space on the server. I read that you can just gzip the js file and save it on the server. I tested that on IIS and I didn't have any luck at all. What exactly do I need to do on every step of...
I have the following code below in my Servlet, but when IE hits the page, it returns a blank html page. If I use the response.getOutputStream() directly in the StreamResult constructor, the page loads fine. What am I missing? response is an instance of HttpServletResponse and xsl is an instance of Transformer from XSLTC TransformerFac...
I have compression enabled within IIS7 and it works as expected on all responses except for those constructed by ASP.NET AJAX. I have a web service that provides data to the client. When the web service is called directly, it is properly compressed. However, when it is called via ASP.NET AJAX, the JSON response is not compressed. How...
Hi - I have compression enabled within IIS7 and it works as expected on all responses except for those constructed by ASP.NET AJAX. I have a web service that provides data to the client. When the web service is called directly, it is properly compressed. However, when it is called via ASP.NET AJAX, the JSON response is not compresse...
I'm interested in compressing data using Python's gzip module. It happens that I want the compressed output to be deterministic, because that's often a really convenient property for things to have in general -- if some non-gzip-aware process is going to be looking for changes in the output, say, or if the output is going to be cryptogr...
Let's say there's a.gz, and b.gz. $ gzip_merge a.gz b.gz -output c.gz I'd like to have this program. Of course, $ cat a.gz b.gz > c.gz doesn't work. Because the final DEFLATE block of a.gz has BFINAL, and the GZIP header of b.gz. (Refer to RFC1951, RFC1952) But if you unset BFINAL, throw away the second GZIP header and walk through t...
You can set the HcDynamicCompressionLevel anywhere from 0-10. I've heard 10 is bad (high CPU usage), but what's the magic number that works the best? ...
I'm writing a Web application that needs to store JSON data in a small, fixed-size server-side cache via AJAX (think: Opensocial quotas). I do not have control over the server. I need to reduce the size of the stored data to stay within a server-side quota, and was hoping to be able to gzip the stringified JSON in the browser before sen...