IIS 5.0, GZIP compression of html?

Hi there ...

I've tried all that I can, getting the compression feature in IIS 5 to
work - read the two KB articles that turns up on compfilt.dll - however all
attempts so far has been in vain.

I've made sure that compression is enabled in the www master properties, and
that the directory exists. I don't understand, does this compression feature
in IIS 5 work at all, if not, then why hasn't there been released a patch?

PS. OS is Windows 2000 Server SP4 with all updates installed.

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Peter
Wed Mar 30 11:43:23 CST 2005

Aditiona question: if it really works... why there is another products
offering the same? (like PipeBoost)
I think that there is some problems with gzip in some browser versions, but
IIS compression don't check the IE version before compress it. Somebody
knows more about this issue?




"Kim Noer" <kn@nospam.dk> wrote in message
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> Hi there ...
>
> I've tried all that I can, getting the compression feature in IIS 5 to
> work - read the two KB articles that turns up on compfilt.dll - however
> all attempts so far has been in vain.
>
> I've made sure that compression is enabled in the www master properties,
> and that the directory exists. I don't understand, does this compression
> feature in IIS 5 work at all, if not, then why hasn't there been released
> a patch?
>
> PS. OS is Windows 2000 Server SP4 with all updates installed.
>
> --
> I doubt, therefore I might be.
>

Kim
Wed Mar 30 11:52:44 CST 2005

"Peter Slam" <pons@nospam.nospam> wrote in message
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> I think that there is some problems with gzip in some browser
> versions, but IIS compression don't check the IE version before
> compress it. Somebody knows more about this issue?

There might be a problem with gzip with some older browsers, but that's,
from what I understand, a problem on the client side. As long as the browser
sends Accept-Encoding:gzip,deflate, IIS 5 should provide the compression,
which it doesn't.

IIS 6 http compression, which Just Works (tm), sends back
Content-Encoding:gzip, which means it works (also visible on the size of the
file).

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