Can gzip compression be selectively disabled in ASP.NET/IIS 7?

Question

I am using a long-lived asynchronous HTTP connection to send progress updates to a client via AJAX. When compression is enabled, the updates are not received in discrete ch

Answer 1

What about you set the gzip compression by your self, selectivle when you wish for ? On the Application_BeginRequest check when you like to make and when you dont make compression. Here is a sample code.

protected void Application_BeginRequest(Object sender, EventArgs e)
{
    string cTheFile = HttpContext.Current.Request.Path;
    string sExtentionOfThisFile = System.IO.Path.GetExtension(cTheFile);

    if (sExtentionOfThisFile.Equals(".aspx", StringComparison.InvariantCultureIgnoreCase))
    {
        string acceptEncoding = MyCurrentContent.Request.Headers["Accept-Encoding"].ToLower();;

        if (acceptEncoding.Contains("deflate") || acceptEncoding == "*")
        {
            // defalte
            HttpContext.Current.Response.Filter = new DeflateStream(prevUncompressedStream,
                CompressionMode.Compress);
            HttpContext.Current.Response.AppendHeader("Content-Encoding", "deflate");
        } else if (acceptEncoding.Contains("gzip"))
        {
            // gzip
            HttpContext.Current.Response.Filter = new GZipStream(prevUncompressedStream,
                CompressionMode.Compress);
            HttpContext.Current.Response.AppendHeader("Content-Encoding", "gzip");
        }       
    }
}