gzip compression coldfusion MX 7 !?

[pirula08]

Is  it possible to automatically enable gzip compression for all pages ? I  really have no idea where to start.

[Owainnorth]

We used a standalone product called ZipEnable, which worked as an ISAPI plugin I believe - once installed it worked very well without any intervention.

I do not believe there's a way to do it automatically.

O.

[Guest]

This is definately natively possible under iis6 if you join CF and IIS together.

We would need to know more about your environment.

http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS291US303&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=iis+gzip+setup

D.

[Mike Collins_CF]

gzip is between the web server and client, CF is not involved.  I know in Apache you turn it on via some settings in the httpd.conf.

[pirula08]

I am a little bit confused. GrandNagel said i should  join CF and IIS  together and you claim that  CF is not involved. Who  is right here?

[Owainnorth]

It's nothing to do with CF, IIS/Apache needs to get a full copy of the HTML (rendered by CF) before it can zip it up.

You need to be looking at the Webserver end.

O.

[pirula08]

Thanks i will try to figure out. What about this: http://blog.jc21.com/2007-02-08/how-to-use-gzip-to-load-your-site-faster/

except my server is CF MX7.

[pirula08]

I just spoke to my hosting provider and they said that gzip compression can not be enabled for my account. It  can be enabled only for Linux platform!

Is there any other way to compress my pages using CF code? PHP example: http://blog.jc21.com/2007-02-08/how-to-use-gzip-to-load-your-site-faster/

[Guest]

using this will reduce your whitespace. 

<CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE SUPPRESSWHITESPACE="true">

*Entire page*

</CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE>

Remove all inline style and script content, placing it in appropriate files and using the correct tags to link them in.  dont forget the </script> tags, <script> cannot self close.

CSS and JS files will be cached, so theres a real advantage there.  Also, let google host jQuery or what ever other library you're using.  Google it for more.

Investigate your page caching (on the client side) options by using meta tags,

Remove/replace table layout designs to further reduce the weight of your markup.

Change your provider or get a low end private hosted box that you can RDP into and work over as you see fit.

D.