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nontroppo

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Just a bit more info. It may not be your programming, but something IIS/6.0 does automatically. The specific page I use for testing was https://www.wincustomize.com/Skins.aspx?LibID=28 I used Ethereal to monitor responses, and Proxomitron set to rewrite HTTP user agent headers (no other rules were active in the Prox filter list) as they left the browser. Ethereal allowed me to search all response headers that had gzip or deflated content.

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Hi, I just did a packet analysis of the wincustomize site after an Opera user reported that WC was slower in Opera than other browsers. What I found was that your main Microsoft IIS/6.0 server specifically targets Opera and refuses to use GZipped content, even though Opera fully supports it. In Firefox, 4 requests are gzip compressed, using almost 100kb less data. If I fully cloak Opera (using the built-in cloaking conf

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