Websites to check whether your pages are served after compression or not.

October 10, 2008 at 9:12 pm (IIS)

  1. http://www.pipeboost.com
  2. http://www.port80software.com/products/httpzip/compresscheck

These are among the few websites which can check and give you in detail picture of how your webpages are working with and without compression.

IIS compression using Gzip is preferred over the default deflate compression as browsers have gzip as their first search string thus pages with gzip loads faster although some people can argue that deflate is faster than gzip.

How to enable gzip compression in your static and dynamic pages this we will cover in the next article.

Given here are the results tested from port80software.com on compression test of a dummy website.

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Disabling IE Enhanced Security Configuration for WS2003

October 10, 2008 at 7:45 pm (IE6, WS2003)

  1. Go to Add/Remove Windows Components in the Add/Remove Programs Dialogue Box and uncheck the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configurationieenhanced1

2.If uninstalling this feature also doesn’t work for you then you can give this a try:-

   Go to  HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet
Settings\ZoneMap\IEHarden
if you find this entry and its value is 1 this means that IE Enhanced Security is enabled for the given user.So just play with the value and make it 0.This works in certain cases but not applicable to all just give it a try,test it and your comments are always welcome.

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