How to enable gzip HTTP compression on Windows Azure dynamic content

Question

I\'ve been trying unsuccessfully to enable gzip HTTP compression on my Windows Azure hosted WCF Restful service which returns JSON only from GET and POST requests.

Answer 1

To deal with local development fabric having issues after first deploy, I added the appropriate commands to the CMD file to reset config. In addition, I'm setting compression level here specifically, since it appears to default to zero in some (all?) cases.

REM Remove old settings - keeps local deploys working (since you get errors otherwise)
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd reset config -section:urlCompression
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd reset config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression 

REM urlCompression - is this needed?
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:urlCompression /doDynamicCompression:True /commit:apphost
REM Enable json mime type
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+"dynamicTypes.[mimeType='application/json; charset=utf-8',enabled='True']" /commit:apphost

REM IIS Defaults
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+"dynamicTypes.[mimeType='text/*',enabled='True']" /commit:apphost
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+"dynamicTypes.[mimeType='message/*',enabled='True']" /commit:apphost
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+"dynamicTypes.[mimeType='application/x-javascript',enabled='True']" /commit:apphost
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+"dynamicTypes.[mimeType='*/*',enabled='False']" /commit:apphost
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+"staticTypes.[mimeType='text/*',enabled='True']" /commit:apphost
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+"staticTypes.[mimeType='message/*',enabled='True']" /commit:apphost
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+"staticTypes.[mimeType='application/javascript',enabled='True']" /commit:apphost
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+"staticTypes.[mimeType='*/*',enabled='False']" /commit:apphost

REM Set dynamic compression level to appropriate level.  Note gzip will already be present because of reset above, but compression level will be zero after reset.
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression /+"[name='deflate',doStaticCompression='True',doDynamicCompression='True',dynamicCompressionLevel='7',dll='%%Windir%%\system32\inetsrv\gzip.dll']" /commit:apphost
%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd.exe set config -section:system.webServer/httpCompression -[name='gzip'].dynamicCompressionLevel:7 /commit:apphost