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

Although hacky, you can get around WCF using the original Content-Length even after the request has been decompressed by setting the private _contentLength field in the HttpRequest class using reflection. Using Joannes Vermorel's code:

    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);

            // set private _contentLength field with new content length after the request has been decompressed
            var contentLengthProperty = typeof(HttpRequest).GetField("_contentLength", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance);
            contentLengthProperty.SetValue(app.Request, (Int32)app.Request.InputStream.Length);
        }
    }