Comments on: Speed up your app by compressing WCF service responses

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:15:32 +0000

I think it’s worth while to mention that you can not just copy and paste the lines at point 3. The compression for svc won’t work.
You have to remove the “ around the extensions.

By: Imran Javed Zia

Imran Javed Zia — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:43:33 +0000

Hi,

After playing about one week and even implementing custom compression i found that we have to enable AspNetCompatibility Mode for wcf for iis 6 but it works fine without it too in iis 7. Please follow the link for more details:
http://www.traviswhidden.com/PublicBlog/tabid/358/EntryId/420/asp-net-and-wcf-compression-via-IIS.aspx

Thanks

By: Imran

Imran — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 14:50:58 +0000

Hi,
We are using Silverlight 4.0 with WCF for Dot Net 4.0 with iis 6.
And our content type for response is application/soap+msbin1.
In iis 7, i have successfully enabled compression by adding application/soap+msbin1 to httpcompression, but not luck in iis 6.
my question is how can i enable dynamic compression this for iis 6 for content type application/soap+msbin1?
Thanks

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By: Kausar Mehmood

Kausar Mehmood — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 11:38:28 +0000

Yes, I was expecting iis compression after applying the scripts, but not luck at all. If I access the wcf service say WCFTest1.svc in browser then it will compress it, and if accessed from Silverlight application then no compression.

By: russ

russ — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 04:43:17 +0000

Thanks for the handy article. Two “gotchas” I ran into implementing this.

I had fiddler open testing silverlight hitting the SVC (all hosted externally). I saw no compression at all. Tried the same thing from my home PC: 750k of XML went down to 18k – nice! I checked the IIS logs, all requests coming via my work proxy are serving up 750k. So corporate proxies can get in the way of this.

Second (which may not be IMMEDIATELY obvious) data going from silverlight to a WCF service won’t be compressed.

By: slyi

slyi — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:26:05 +0000

Tag issue in response above for 2 it should read
2. In ApplicationHost.config add to dynamic types to dynamictypes

By: slyi

slyi — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 11:23:53 +0000

For IIS7 http://blog.wassupy.com/2009/08/enabling-dynamic-http-compression-in.html
To WCF binary use
1. install “dynamic file compression” IIS feature as above
2. In ApplicationHost.config add to dynamic types
3. “enable dynamic content compression” in your IIS compression setting.

As for instance, we have a report that 5000 lines 5mb takes 23. 1 seconds but we compression enabled in IIS7 it compreses to 299kb with 3.3 seconds

By: Yinka.T

Yinka.T — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 16:55:07 +0000

Thanks a lot,i was looking for this exact solution

By: Guillermo

Guillermo — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:07:36 +0000

Hi, Tim.

Is it possible to configure IIS 7 to use compression in WCF responses? If so, how do you do that?