I usually adopt a custom simple HttpModule to compress programmatically the page content in my asp.net applications. Private Sub CompressRequest() If ((String.IsNullOrEmpty(HttpContext.Current.Request.Headers("Accept-encoding")) = False) AndAlso _ (HttpContext.Current.Request.Headers("Accept-encoding").Contains("gzip") = True)) Then [...]

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