IIS 6 Compression and App_Themes CSS

Posted by: Rick Strahls WebLog, on 05 Jun 2007 | View original

Hmmm. I finally got around to setting up static GZip compression on my server. I can't remember the reason why I didn't do this sooner, but today I was looking at some of my CSS files getting out of hand so I thought I better check into this again. It's easy enough to do. MVP Omar Al Zabir has a nice post that summarizes how to set up IIS 6 for GZip compression which is quickly done by changing a few settings in Metabase.xml. IIS 6 basically writes out the content as compressed files to a sort of...

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