http-compression

I am implementing page/resource compression to improve website performance. I have tried to implement both blowery and wicked HttpCompress but end up getting the same result. This only seems to affect Firefox, I have tested on Chrome and IE. What happens is the first time I request the page all the external resources decompress ok. The 2nd or 3rd time the page has errors because the resource doesn't seem to be decompressed. I get unicode characters like: ������í½`I%&/mÊ{JõJ×àt¡`$Ø@ìÁÍæìiG#)«*ÊeVe]f (actually they can't be displayed properly here) Inspecting the page via firebug displays the

I was using WebPageTest to test the performance of my Azure Web App (ASP.Net vNext Web API/Angular). I got an F for both "Compress Transfer" and "Cache Static Content". After searching StackOverflow and Google, I added the following to my web.config: <urlCompression doStaticCompression="true" doDynamicCompression="true" /> <httpCompression> <dynamicTypes> <clear /> <remove mimeType="*/*" /> <add enabled="true" mimeType="text/*"/> <add enabled="true" mimeType="message/*"/> <add enabled="true" mimeType="application/x-javascript"/> <add enabled="true" mimeType="application/javascript"/> <add

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 {"Error":null,"IsCompressed":true,"Success":true,"Value":"vWsAAB+LCAAAAAAAB..etc.."} ... where value is the compressed string of a complex object represented in JSON. This was really easy to implement on the server, but for the life of me I can't figure out how to

When requesting a page with Gzip compression I am getting a lot of the following errors: System.IO.InvalidDataException: The CRC in GZip footer does not match the CRC calculated from the decompressed data I am using native GZipStream to decompress and am looking at addressing this. With that in mind is there a work around for addressing this or another GZip library (free?) which will handle this issue properly? I am verifying the webResponse ContentEncoding is GZIP Update 5/11 A simplified snippit //Caller public void SOSampleGet(string url) { // Initialize the WebRequest. webRequest =

I am currently working on migrating few of my MVC3 Controllers to MVC4 Api Controllers. I have implemented Compression mechanism for MVC3 controller Get Method Responses by inherting ActionFilterAttribute and overriding OnActionExecutiong method. After some Research I found that I need to use ActionFilterMethod from System.Web.HttpFilters . It would be great if somebody can share piece of sample code to get me started for this compressing HTTP response using GZip The easiest is to enable compression directly at IIS level. If you want to do it at the application level you could write a custom