How can I get ASP.NET AJAX to send its JSON response with GZip compression?

Question

I have compression enabled within IIS7 and it works as expected on all responses except for those constructed by ASP.NET AJAX. I have a web service that provides data to the cl

Answer 1

In general you don't want to do this unless you wouldn't mind throwing orders of magnitudes the amount of server power into your apps...

Also not only server-CPU but also client-CPU becomes a problem when you do this....

This concludes with that your app becomes WAY slower if you GZip all your Ajax Responses...!