Tips and Tricks : Fiddler

When troubleshooting website issue (such as parts of the website not loading, infinite redirect loops, and so on) the web debugger tools Fiddler2 comes in handy. This is especially so when troubleshooting HTTPS issues. Wireshark is a bit difficult to use when troubleshooting encrypted sessions because unless you are given the private keys from the … Continue reading Tips and Tricks : Fiddler

IIS HTTP compression w/ gzip wasn’t working

I had followed the rather simple commands as per the microsoft KB article here: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/502ef631-3695-4616-b268-cbe7cf1351ce.mspx?mfr=true The server was still not compressing anything and the temporary compression directory remained empty. This was really frustrating, until I ran across this article: http://panvega.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/http-compression-in-iis/ There is an extra step that technet seems to have forgotten. The above site nails … Continue reading IIS HTTP compression w/ gzip wasn’t working