It has been a busy week for me on updating this blog. Dealing with a 3rd party developer and letting me learn something new. I don't know everything and I seldom pretend knowing something I don't.
What I have learned from dealing with a 3rd party developer is this option of IIS to compress the content and giving it to the client browser. I sure wasn't aware of it. According to this source: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/08/http-compression-and-iis-6-0.html
IIS 6 is the server I am currently using for a website done by a 3rd party developer. So that article I linked above is a bit helpful in explaining it. And another link on how to enable it: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/d52ff289-94d3-4085-bc4e-24eb4f312e0e.mspx?mfr=true
Here is a link for the IIS 7 configuration: http://www.iis.net/configreference/system.webserver/urlcompression
urlCompression replaces the settings of the IIS in .Net.
Which I found out was already set to send compressed files to browsers. And does not need to be set at all, it is only in IIS 6 and below where it is disabled, since some browsers then do not accept compressed files.
According to the first link, compression makes the plain text size by 75 percent. Not bad, but still if you have a small bandwidth, that will still affect your server and clients that are accessing it constantly.
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