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Kyle
Kyle

Reputation: 980

Windows Service "self hosted" WCF : compression?

Using compression with WCF in IIS I can find documentation for, but its oriented towards using IIS features.

I can find people talking about how they've written their own compression handlers, but it all looks pretty custom.

Is there a best practice around compressing WCF? We're using http bindings.

Edit: setting this as a wiki.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 1641

Answers (1)

marc_s
marc_s

Reputation: 754220

There's nothing out of the box to help you with this.

You can indeed implement your own compression extensions for WCF - several folks have done it, and you should be able to find it using your favorite search engine.

But the best thing you could do for your bindings - as long as your clients all are under your control and you can easily configure them - would be to use binary message encoding vs. textual representations of messages.

You can easily combine binary message encoding with http transport - you need a custom binding, but that's really not a big deal at all. Lots of folks have done that, too - so you can benefit from work that's already been done:

Upvotes: 3

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