1. HTTP Compression Overview HTTP compression is a method of transmitting compressed text content between web servers and browsers. HTTP compression uses common compression algorithms such as Gzip and other compressed HTML, JavaScript, or CSS files.
2. HTTP compression work principle The WEB server handles the working principle of HTTP compression as follows: - After receiving the browser's HTTP request, check if the browser supports HTTP compression; - If the browser supports HTTP compression, the web server checks the request file Suffix name; - If the request file is HTML, CSS and other static files, the web server to check if there is a recent compressed file that already exists in the request file; The compressed request file and stores a compressed file for request files in the compressed buffer directory; Dynamically compressed content and return to the browser, the compressed content is not stored in the compressed cache directory.
3. Steps to configure HTTP compression in IIS 6.0
