Compress WebResource.axd in ASP.NET

6/13/2008 5:19:54 AM #

For one with a mentality of disregarding 3rd party libraries, I would think you would forget about WebResource.axd all together and write your own Javascript.  Then it wouldn't be bloated with needless crap like WebResource.axd is.  That's the way I see it.

By the way, I think you already posted something like this...
blog.madskristensen.dk/.../...pages-in-ASPNET.aspx

Oh, and I hate the dates on your blog because looking at that post, you can't tell what year it was written.  That sucks.

Best Regards...

Josh Stodola |

6/13/2008 6:24:37 AM #

Hey Mads, you must be reading my mind, I was just using YSlow last night and trying to figure out how to do this - so thanks.  

You'd think that MS would've at least put some small effort into minimizing the size of the axd code - but nope!

Carlito |

6/13/2008 11:46:00 AM #

Hey, I'm actually with you.  I don't like to use 3rd party libraries either, and I agree that they take out some of the fun.  You lose that sense of total control as well.  But I take it a step further; I don't rely on WebResource.axd for the simple fact that it is bloated.  I handroll my Javascript functions.

Josh Stodola |

6/13/2008 3:12:55 PM #

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6/13/2008 8:51:38 PM #

Hey, you guys don't like 3rd party stuff, but sometimes it just doing the job much better, and if it is open source (http://www.codeplex.com/MbCompression) you have the control over it.
Why you guys are using Blogengine.NET and not building your own blog engine? what is the different? it is 3rd stuff too.
We are using it because it is doing the job good, it is saving us time, and the best part - it is open source. The same you can say about every other 3rt party stuff. If it's doing the job better than what we have, it save us time, and it is open source, why not using it?

Miron |

6/13/2008 9:10:52 PM #

Thanks a lot Mads, this module will really help me out for nearly every website I'm working on.

Matt |

6/14/2008 2:31:09 AM #

Thanks, nice and simple.

I did find that it doesn't work when the website isn't running in the root path. I modified the first line if the JavaScriptHandler.ProcessRequest method to the following to fix this issue:

string path = context.Request.Url.GetLeftPart(UriPartial.Authority) + VirtualPathUtility.ToAbsolute("~" + context.Request.QueryString["path"]);

Chris Pietschmann |

6/23/2008 10:53:44 PM #

In case of IE 6 is the compression disabled?

Line 134,135:
if (context.Request.UserAgent != null && context.Request.UserAgent.Contains("MSIE 6"))
return;

Why is it so?

Domokos Tar |

6/26/2008 5:52:17 PM #

Is this intended to replace the compression routine you wrote in blog.madskristensen.dk/.../...pages-in-ASPNET.aspx

henry |

7/3/2008 7:03:30 PM #

Compressing on the way is better but there are online tools that compress javascript files such as http://www.compressjavascript.com

Blogging Developer |

7/8/2008 2:08:28 PM #

Thanks a lot Mads!! Your code is so perfect. excellent work.
Thank you for sharing this script, it helped me a lot with my site performance.

I'm using YSLOW to test my website and i noticed that all the ScriptResource.axd files are not minified and not combined to one .js file.

how can i set that all generated ScriptResource.axd's will also be compressed and minified?

Best Regards,
Ravi.

Ravi Thapliyal |

10/27/2008 2:44:05 PM #

hi mads

how to compress the javascript files
iam getting error.my js files are not working

gowrishankar |

5/12/2009 4:51:57 AM #

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