Http Compression and Assembly loading

In .Net framework 1.0 and 1.1, fusion is not able to download assemblies hosted in web servers with http compression enabled.

This is a bug in fusion, and it has been fixed in .Net framework 2.0.

We may backport the fix to 1.0 and 1.1, depending on the demand. The fix is non-trivial and affects all http assembly download case. Which means it has a high probability of regression.

Until then, please consider Deploying assemblies using cab files. It gives a much better compression ratio. And it works in all versions of .Net framework.

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 02, 2005
  Presumably you could also turn off compression for .dll and .exe files?
  
  To do this in IIS 6.0 see http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/IIS/6/all/techref/en-us/iisRG_PER_26.mspx.
• Anonymous
  March 02, 2005
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• Anonymous
  March 03, 2005
  Mike,
  
  People want compression to save bandwith. They don't want to turn off compression.
  
  David,
  
  Sorry I have no idea on mobile devices. Presumably people are concerned about CPU power and battery lifetime.
• Anonymous
  March 15, 2005
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• Anonymous
  March 16, 2005
  Jeff,
  
  Assume you install mshtml.dll's PIA into client's GAC, you won't have this issue, right?
• Anonymous
  March 16, 2005
  The comment has been removed
• Anonymous
  March 16, 2005
  (Sorry for last post. In fact, sorry for this one too !)
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  May 16, 2005
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