Article ID: 259760
Article Last Modified on 11/21/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0
This article was previously published under Q259760
SYMPTOMS
HTTP compression allows Internet Information Services (IIS) to send compressed content to the browser when the following conditions are true:
- The HTTP request is issued by a compression-enabled browser.
- HTTP Compression is enabled on the IIS server for static and/or dynamic content.
- The request is an HTTP GET request.
Even when you enable HTTP Compression, POST responses are not compressed.
CAUSE
This is a design limitation in IIS 5.0. A fix has been developed to enable HTTP Compression on POST requests. See the "Resolution" section for more information.
RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack
The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:
Date Time Version Size File name Platform
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04/13/2000 10:16p 5.0.2195.2037 23312 Compfilt.dll i386<BR/>
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in Internet Information Services 5.0. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 2.
MORE INFORMATION
To enable HTTP compression on POST requests, do the following:
- Enable HTTP Compression (see the IIS documentation for information on how to do this.)
- Install the fix.
- Set the EnablePostCmp registry parameter to 1:
EnablePostCmp Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\W3Svc\Parameters Value Type: REG_DWORD - Boolean Valid Range: 0,1 (False or True) Default: 0 (False) Description: Setting this parameter to 1 causes compression to be enabled also on POST.
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