How to support compressed HTTP requests in Asp.Net 4.0 / IIS7?

Question

For an ASP.NET 4.0 / IIS7 web app, I would like to support compressed HTTP requests. Basically, I would like to support clients that would add Content-Enc

Answer 1

For those who might be interested, the implementation is rather straightforward with an IHttpModule that simply filters incoming requests.

public class GZipDecompressModule : IHttpModule
{
    public void Init(HttpApplication context)
    {
        context.BeginRequest += BeginRequest;
    }

    void BeginRequest(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        var app = (HttpApplication)sender;

        if ("gzip" == app.Request.Headers["Content-Encoding"])
        {
            app.Request.Filter = new GZipStream(
               app.Request.Filter, CompressionMode.Decompress);
        }
    }

    public void Dispose()
    {
    }
}

Update: It appears that this approach trigger a problem in WCF, as WCF relies on the original Content-Length and not the value obtained after decompressing.