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    Posted: 02 November 2005 at 3:38pm
I hope some of you guys can tell me about if the native IIS6 HTTP compression is of any good compressing Javascript files?

I know it does a good job on HTML and even dynamic pages, but not sure how it behaves when it gets a Javascript file.

The reason I ask is that I have a JS file that occupies now almost 30 KB, I can compress it with a compression utility and that will go down to about 8 KB, but since I need to constantly change the functions inside the JS file, I would prefer to leave it uncompressed, however it would be nice if IIS compression can squeeze it reasonably before sending, does anyone know?
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Well IIS compression isnt supported properly by default, so I assume you have enabled it fully by reading either a microsoft article or a third party one.

I think if you edit the metabase you can select what type of files are compressed. You could just renaming it .html although this could create some problems.

There is also a product from port80software (google it) that gives you a nice GUI
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Yes, I have edited the metabase last year if I'm not mistaken, anyway, it's properly set to compress most files, including dynamic files, and it's compression is set to 9 on a [0 - 10] scale, as it gives the best compromise.

What I need to know is how well does it compress a .js file?
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