Oct 04

HOWTO: Setup Compression in IIS6 Web Server

Posted in: Software Development, Technology, Web

To enable server-wide HTTP compression

“To more efficiently use available bandwidth, enable IIS HTTP compression. HTTP compression provides faster transmission time between compression-enabled browsers and IIS, regardless of whether your content is served from local storage or a UNC resource. You can compress static files and application response files. Compressing application response files is usually called dynamic compression.” That’s great, although it’s not enabled by default! 

You could do this via the MMC IIS6 snapin, I prefer to keep things a little more simpel and efficient. The batch file below will configure IIS compression for you, simply copy and paste from below into Notepad and save as “setIISCompression.bat”. Run the batch file, done! Continue Reading…

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Dec 16

Session_OnEnd not being called in your global.asa ( kb 934903 )

Posted in: Software Development

You and me both, well at least me until i discovered that Microsoft had released IIS6 with a big bug in the ASP.dll and then installed the Hotfix.

For some reason the bug simply causes the session to end without calling the sub routine Session_OnEnd in your global.asa file.Why and how they missed this, and why the fix hasn’t been released generally begs some questions.

Luckily for me I am the recipient of great Microsoft support.You can try your luck by going here and following the instructions. MS might if you ask nicely send you the fix as they have not released it for download.

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