Compressing a web service response for jQuery

Question

I\'m attempting to gzip a JSON response from an ASMX web service to be consumed on the client-side by jQuery.

My web.config already has httpCompression set like so:

Answer 1

You can change httpCompression only in applicationHost.config. See this link

Like you, I tried changing it in web.config first, but it didn't work. It worked only when I added the following lines to C:\Windows\System32\inetsrv\config\applicationHost.config:

  
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