Comments on: HttpCompress

By: German

German — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 01:43:49 +0000

I tried using this on a website running .NET 4 and I keep getting the error below. Any ideas?

Exception information:
Exception type: ArgumentOutOfRangeException
Exception message: Index and count must refer to a location within the string.
Parameter name: count
at System.String.RemoveInternal(Int32 startIndex, Int32 count)
at System.String.Remove(Int32 startIndex, Int32 count)
at blowery.Web.HttpCompress.HttpModule.CompressContent(Object sender, EventArgs e)

By: Amit

Amit — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:34:22 +0000

Hello,
first thanks for sharing this wonderful technology. but can i use it for my web application running on .net framework 3.5 and 4?

By: Ben

Ben — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 13:45:20 +0000

Yeah, known issue. Never had to figure what’s going on there. If you can, I would love for someone to figure it out.

By: NightOwl888

NightOwl888 — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 03:31:23 +0000

Great module, however during testing I discovered that the WebResource.axd automated files were blank until I put in an exclusion for it. I am using ASP.NET 2.0 on IIS 5.1 (Windows XP). Is there any explanation why it doesn’t work on those dynamic files?

Here is a description of the solution I found and how I traced it back to blowery HttpCompress: http://www.rosshawkins.net/archive/2006/10/08/webresource.axd.aspx

By: Andrew Cotterell

Andrew Cotterell — Fri, 01 Oct 2010 20:27:22 +0000

Mike or Brain, what’s the config entry to have the js file compressed?

By: vps windows

vps windows — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 15:44:42 +0000

No. You would need a dedicated server. I looked into doing something just as CPU intensive a while back and I kept reaching my limits. I had to move it to a dedicated server which was about $180/month. Good luck!

By: mike

mike — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:45:23 +0000

Brian, what line did you add, i dont see it in your comment.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:29:37 +0000

for those having issues with js files (and other static files) I found adding this:

To the HTTPHandlers node in web.config seems to work, no idea why as surely thats what its doing by default but there you go.

By: george k

george k — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 21:02:23 +0000

Using YSlow to check the stats on my site, I noticed even with blowery, js and css files are not being compressed. My config states to exclude image files and binaries, but not js or css. This is a .net 2 site. Anyone have any ideas why this is happening? I’ve included the source as is in my project btw, rather than using the precompiled binary. This is just for ease of deployment purposes.

By: markus

markus — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:04:20 +0000

I noticed the same problem as mogadanez: httpCompress will compress static files when run in the Visual Studio Web Developement Server, but not in IIS6 with wildcard mapping set. It does however compress all dynamic requests as expected, including all my extension-less URLs, so the wildcard mapping actually seems to work.

Anybody any idea on what could be wrong here or how to work around it?

I understand it could become too CPU intensive for high-traffic sites to compress a lot of static content on the files (without server-side caching of compressed content as IIS could do it itself), but that’s not an issue for me now.