Server-Side Compression

13 Dec 2005 11:43 PM

Brian Staff

I'm using IIS 5 and I've been reading about server to browser HTTP compression
using "gzip" or "deflate" encoding.

Can this be done in IIS 5?

If so, it is a configuration setting or do I need to compress it myself before
sending to the browser?

Brian

14 Dec 2005 8:48 AM

Patrice

Try :
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/iis/maintain/featusability/httpcomp.mspx

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> I'm using IIS 5 and I've been reading about server to browser HTTP
compression
> using "gzip" or "deflate" encoding.
>
> Can this be done in IIS 5?
>
> If so, it is a configuration setting or do I need to compress it myself
before
> sending to the browser?
>
> Brian
>

14 Dec 2005 2:58 PM

Brian Staff

Patrice,

Thank-you - that's exactly what I was looking for.

Brian
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"Patrice" <nob***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
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> Try :
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/iis/maintain/featusability/httpcomp.mspx
>
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>
> Patrice
>
> "Brian Staff" <brianstaff AT [NoSpam]cox DOT net> a écrit dans le message
> de
> news:VA.0000030d.86ed6979@bstaffw2k.jda.corp.local...
>> I'm using IIS 5 and I've been reading about server to browser HTTP
> compression
>> using "gzip" or "deflate" encoding.
>>
>> Can this be done in IIS 5?
>>
>> If so, it is a configuration setting or do I need to compress it myself
> before
>> sending to the browser?
>>
>> Brian
>>
>
>

15 Dec 2005 12:48 AM

Larry Randolf

Just realize built in compression in IIS 5 was never all that good.
It was improved a lot in version 6

If you want the real scope check with these guys
http://www.port80software.com/

I am friends with a couple guys there and they really know their stuff

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> Patrice,
>
> Thank-you - that's exactly what I was looking for.
>
> Brian
> "Patrice" <nob***@nowhere.com> wrote in message
> news:OfHCrsIAGHA.2256@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> Try :
>> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/iis/maintain/featusability/httpcomp.mspx
>>
>> --
>>
>> Patrice
>>
>> "Brian Staff" <brianstaff AT [NoSpam]cox DOT net> a écrit dans le message
>> de
>> news:VA.0000030d.86ed6979@bstaffw2k.jda.corp.local...
>>> I'm using IIS 5 and I've been reading about server to browser HTTP
>> compression
>>> using "gzip" or "deflate" encoding.
>>>
>>> Can this be done in IIS 5?
>>>
>>> If so, it is a configuration setting or do I need to compress it myself
>> before
>>> sending to the browser?
>>>
>>> Brian
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

15 Dec 2005 5:47 PM

Brian Staff

Interesting site...thanks. The blog on delivering stale pages confirmed a
problem I had yesterday, so I switched off compression until I understand the
effect on cacheing more thoroughly.

I have another question: if a web server delivers compressed data, I understand
that most browsers can handle that, but what if I am using AJAX and requesting
content on the client via XMLHTTP? Who does the de-compression then? Is that up
to me or does XMLHTTP automatically de-compress it for me?

Brian

16 Dec 2005 6:47 PM

Kyle Peterson

you really should ask them.. it is more than I want to think about. :)

I run compression on 22 domains on my server and I have all sorts of crazy
server side code going on. I really have no issues and I have it compressing
everything. I got xml and page scraping going on all over the place. Now, of
course I am using IIS6's built in compression along with one of their
software apps that gives me more control of the settings. I dont think I
need it though but it is nice because it lets you tweak things on a page by
page basis.

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"Brian Staff" <brianstaff AT [NoSpam]cox DOT net> wrote in message
news:VA.0000030e.8ff4a41f@bstaffw2k.jda.corp.local...
> Interesting site...thanks. The blog on delivering stale pages confirmed a
> problem I had yesterday, so I switched off compression until I understand
> the
> effect on cacheing more thoroughly.
>
> I have another question: if a web server delivers compressed data, I
> understand
> that most browsers can handle that, but what if I am using AJAX and
> requesting
> content on the client via XMLHTTP? Who does the de-compression then? Is
> that up
> to me or does XMLHTTP automatically de-compress it for me?
>
> Brian
>