Like several other comments here I am getting the "500 There is no web application configured to service your request error". I dug into the server logs and found that it is because of a "Unsupported major.minor version" error. Can you update Java safely (using ColdFusion 6.1) or is it not worth it?

I integrated the same in my application. I downloaded the gzipflt.jar, saved it at the required position and modified In cfroot\wwwroot\WEB-INF\web.xml. But when i restarted cf application server.I got "500 There is no web application configured to service your request" when tried to access my site. When reverted all the the thing, started working. I am using cf7.
any ideas?

I am getting the same error as subhankar. Any ideas?

I ran across an odd problem and wanted to see if anyone had any experience with it.
I use the filter above and it works great, cuts down page sizes as expected.

I am doing a zip download using cfcontent and it won't work in IE for some reason the file always said it was corrupt, works fine in FireFox, Opera, etc.
After some investigation the IE version of the download wasn't getting the gzip decoded by the browser. I can use a cflocation to get to the zip after it's created, but this means I can't secure the files which isn't good for me. Is there a way to not apply the gzip filter on a script level basis? Or perhaps trick it into thinking the browser does not accept gzip encoding?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

I integrated the same in my application. I downloaded the gzipflt.jar, kept it at the required position and modified In cfroot\wwwroot\WEB-INF\web.xml. But when i restarted cf application server.I got "500 There is no web application configured to service your request" when tried to access my site. When reverted all the the thing, started working. I am using cf7.
Can you suggest where i am going wrong?

Hi,

I tested my website with and without GZIP but speed is pretty much the same. I just followed the instructions here. I'm using CF7 and IE7.

Thanks,
Cita

nice

Hi,

First of all, I would like to thank you for such a great article. The gzipftl.jar worked wonder for us. The only
problem I had is when this is paired with trimflt.jar(to trim whitespace).

Do you know if there's a workaround?

Thank you.
Ismael

Be nice to have listed the tradeoffs and provided some benchmarks. Yes, the resulting file size is smaller, but since the per-page processing overhead is higher, what's the net effect? Is the site faster, slower, or pretty much the same? Or is the sole reason for doing this simply to cut down on your bandwidth bill?

Hi Sami,

Thanks for the article. Do u have any suggestions on how I could do exactly the same for Flex remote object calls against cfcs using amf?

Cheers,

Amnon

Hi,
it seems that Gzip scrambles special characters. E.g. a single quote becomes a question mark, just like ë.
How can that be solved? Is that because the code really has an ë instead of &eacut;?

Is there some reason to use this over built in web server compression? IIS and Apache can both be configured to compress both static files and dynamically generated pages. With this method, only dynamic content is compressed....