I am having issues with IE6 (surprise) and HTTP Compression using IIS6. I really don't want to turn off HTTP Compression for the site. Is there a way to tell IIS6 to not compress responses to specific versions of browsers? IE7 works fine. EDIT: My problem actually comes from Silverlight 2 consuming a WCF Service. With compression tu...
I have an MVC application view that is generating quite a large HTML table of values (>20MB). I am compressing the view in the controller using a compression filter internal class CompressFilter : ActionFilterAttribute { public override void OnActionExecuting(ActionExecutingContext filterContext) { HttpRequestBase ...
It looks like IIS httpCompression compresses your files. If this compression is in place, what is the reason to compress files using compression tools like: Packer, JSMin or Yahoo Compressor? ...
My web hosting provider is running IIS7 and I am having loads of trouble to get gzip compression to work properly. Host admins say compression is installed. I can confirm compression using some online checking services but not with others. PageSpeed Firefox add-on also says the site is uncompressed. I am personally sitting behind a Squid...
I'm using the httpcompression module from blowery. It works great with asp.net mvc except on the root url, www.samplesite.com/. On all others it's great, www.samplesite.com/Countries for example. Is anyone here using this module or any other compression module with asp.net mvc ? ...
Hi all, I've been trying unsuccessfully to enable gzip HTTP compression on my Windows Azure hosted WCF Restful service which returns JSON only from GET and POST requests. I have tried so many things that I would have a hard time listing all of them, and I now realise I have been working with conflicting information (regarding old ver...
What is the recommended way to configure Apache to enable HTTP compression for CSS and JS fiels, using .htaccess? I have seen several different directives used in examples on the web. I have tried some of these and yet I have not been able to get it to work. I am checking the HTTP headers using Firebug. ...
Hi, I have a web-service running on Windows Azure which returns JSON that I consume in my iPhone app. Unfortunately, Windows Azure doesn't seem to support the compression of dynamic responses yet (long story) so I decided to get around it by returning an uncompressed JSON package, which contains a compressed (using GZIP) string. e.g ...
I want to enable HttpCompression in IIS6.0 using adsutil.vbs. I understand that i can enable it for generic server level as well as for a specific website under IIS. (I used this http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/502ef631-3695-4616-b268-cbe7cf1351ce.mspx?mfr=true as a primary resource).. However ...
I have written ashx which merges and remove white-spaces for javascript and css contents. Using VS2010 ASP.NET Development Server everything works fine. But in IIS7, text/javascript contents are not compressed (I'm using fiddler to monitor it). I don't have problem with text/css contents and both of the contents are handled by the...