Question

Is it possible to gzip a single asp.net 3.5 page? my site is hosted on IIS7 and for technical reasons I cannot enable gzip compression site wide. does IIS7 have an option to gzip individual pages or will I have to override OnPreRender and write some code to compress the output?

Answer 1

You can use Blowery HttpCompress module. In the web.config you can specificy the files you want to exclude from compression.

   <httpCompress preferredAlgorithm="gzip" compressionLevel="high">
      <excludedMimeTypes>
        <add type="application/pdf"/>
      </excludedMimeTypes>
      <excludedPaths>
        <add path="/pathToExclude"/>
        <add path="WebResource.axd"/>
        <add path="ScriptResource.axd"/>
      </excludedPaths>
    </httpCompress>