I’ve been reading up on the merits of IIS 6 compression over at CodingHorror (here), but I don’t get where I’m supposed to make those alterations. Web.config or somewhere else?
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I’ve been reading up on the merits of IIS 6 compression over at CodingHorror (here), but I don’t get where I’m supposed to make those alterations. Web.config or somewhere else?
in the IIS configuration file Metabase.xml. Its location is:
inside the XML file find the sections jeff talks about, and make those changes.
beware of one detail, default IIS 6 compression settings introduces problems for users behind some proxies, some HTTP 1.0 related issue ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501192 ), so make sure to disable the compression for HTTP 1.0 requests by setting the following setting to true:
details at: https://serverfault.com/questions/12398/http-compression-in-iis-6-0-causing-problems-with-certain-users