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• 06-15-2009, 11:24 AM

  osteinme Joined on 06-15-2009, 11:16 AM Posts 2

  IIS 6.0, Compression and semi-dynamic data Reply Contact Hi I have a web service in C# that computes every 10 minutes some very large report - amount of data returned = 120MB. The report is cached. We will use HTTP compression but the issue I'm having is that it will compress our cached report for each client request : in IIS 6.0 only static files are cached even when compressed. Is there some way around it so that IIS caches the compressed report and serves it to clients, and we compress again only once the report has changed ? In the past we have tried to compresse the data ourselves in the web service but the gain was not as good as when IIS does the job. Thanks. Olivier

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• 06-17-2009, 3:06 AM

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  ksingla Joined on 06-14-2006, 3:02 AM Redmond, WA Posts 863	Re: IIS 6.0, Compression and semi-dynamic data Reply Contact IIS7 has this scenario supported.You can make dynamic compression happen before update cache stage and if you have output caching configured, you end up caching this dynamically compressed response. I don't think this will be possible with IIS6 without a custom ISAPI. Follow me on twitter at http://twitter.com/kjsingla

• 06-17-2009, 8:18 AM

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  osteinme Joined on 06-15-2009, 11:16 AM Posts 2	Re: IIS 6.0, Compression and semi-dynamic data Reply Contact Thanks ksingla. That's what I feared. My company needs to finish validating windows server 2008 then IIS7, which is planned for September ... And I don't want to go the custom ISAPI route, dev and support are not familiar enough with IIS here so I want to stick to plain vanilla IIS as much as possible.