dotnet web services: Hello,

Can anyone recommend the best way of compression soap packets? or a book or
a webpage with detail instructions on how to do it...not even my microsoft
webservices book has more than a page on compression....

I can't seem to get anything to work :(

http://weblogs.asp.net/pglavich/archive/2004/01/24/62475.aspx <-- this one
seems promising but I get when following the instructions
Error 4 Unable to emit assembly: Referenced assembly 'WSSoapCompression'
does not have a strong name

Im so frustrated!
John

"John Sheppard" <spam@nospam.com> wrote in
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Are you hosting in IIS? You can enable GZIP in IIS 6.0.



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"John Sheppard" <spam@nospam.com> wrote in
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WSE is a complex framework (same with WCF) so there can be quite a bit of
"overhead".

However it's a good skill to learn, once you understand how web services
work, it's not too bad when you stick to the basics.

As for "out of the box" compression besides GZIP, I'm not sure if there is
anything. AFAIK, there is no compression standard for Web Services. You can
always roll your own compression standard?

If you're transferring large amounts of binary data, take a look at MTOM,
it uses a different encoding standard than regular web services which can
cut data transfer down by ~30 - 33%.

MTOM is supported in WSE and WCF.

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Yep we are using IIS6.0...I will have a look at that...

I have tried WSE3.0 and various implementations...I'm really starting to
hate webservices, the programing overhead is massive...:( or maybe im just
frustrated at the moment..

Thank you