We have 3 HTTP Compression available in IIS 7.0
- GZIP Encoding
- DEFLATE Encoding
- BZIP2 Encoding
What are the difference between these three? Which is the best compression for security and performance?
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gzip and deflate both use the deflate algorithm, but gzip adds a few bytes in headers. bzip2 gives better compression, but is much slower.
Security has nothing to do with it as the compression needs to be reversible. If security is an issue your best bet is to use HTTPS.