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Questions tagged [compression]

Decrease the size of data, typically to preserve space or reduce network bandwidth required while transmitting files. It can be applied to files, folders, disks, etc.

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Ubuntu: Compressed, but not encrypted, tunnel for TCP?

How can I set up a tunnel for TCP connections between two hosts so that I can test a few different compression algorithms? I'm aware of stunnel & SSH, but want to avoid the overhead of encryption. To avoid TCP-in-TCP flow issues, UDP as the…
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How can I enable iis 5.1 compression on windows XP

Is there any other way to enable compression in IIS5.1 other than using the command line? http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb742379.aspx These instructions reference a Services tab that I do not have. There are some command line…
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Create self extracting (.exe) zip from the command line

Trying to automate a manual procedure in place currently. This is on a Windows 2008 server. Is there a method to create a self extracting (.exe) zip file from a commandline/batch file?
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is gunzip atomic?

I have two scripts that watch a directory (postgres warm-standby) one script copies compressed files into the directory and then uncompresses them. the other script watches for the uncompressed files and then ingests them into postgres. Im…
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Gzip pre-compression

I'm using mod_deflate to compress my .css and .js files on the fly: AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/text text/html text/plain text/xml text/css application/x-javascript application/javascript The problem is…
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Tell if IIS is being asked to serve compressed pages?

I'm trying to find out if our IIS server is being asked to serve pages compressed. I'm a noob regarding a lot of this so am working my way through the issues. We're using IIS 6.0 and have correctly turned compression on. If I use Fiddler2 to analyse…
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IIS7 Compression Configuration

Previously when I used IIS6, I used IIS6 Metabase Explorer to edit Metabase.xml and manually turned on compression, specified the compression level and the file extensions to compress. IIS7 seems a bit different, there is no Metabase.xml file in the…
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Single line command/script to archive a certain amount of folders

I'm looking for a single line command or a script that archives 5 folders into .tar files (no gzip/bzip needed) in a certain directory and deletes the folders after a successful compression. It has to use the original folder name as file name for…
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Decompressing Files on an NTFS Volume from Linux

I recently did something stupid on my dual-boot laptop, where I compressed the entire volume to make room for a Linux partition. For some reason, Windows let me compress C:\ntldr. Now I need to get it uncompressed in order for Windows to boot. Here…
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SQL Server Log Shipping: Replace Copy Job with Manual Compress & Copy

I have two instances of SQL Server 2005 STANDARD edition, Server A in New York and Server B in California. Server A has a large database; for DR/BCP purposes, I would like to use Log Shipping to keep a warm backup on Server B. Unfortunately, the…
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Is HTTP PUT request compressed if I am using mod_deflate or gzip on apache?

I am receiving xml files on my server using the HTTP PUT request. Is it compressed during the transfer if my Apache is configured with mod_deflate? How can I verify that it is compress? If not, how can I force the compression? Thanks!
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Ways to make deployment ready pre-compressed brotli files on windows server

I am dynamically generating HTML files, which I use for deployment. This is what I use to make these HTML file: function writeFile() Dim objStream Set objStream = CreateObject("ADODB.Stream") objStream.CharSet = "utf-8" …
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Are servers allowed to add a Content-Encoding header based on filename, if there is no compression on-the-fly?

Problem Suppose we have a compressed archive on disk, e.g. file.tar.gz, which should be served as-is. The file is served with Content-Type: application/gzip, but for some reason the server also adds a Content-Encoding: gzip header, even though it…
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Cannot turn off SSLCompression in Apache?

My Apache is 2.4.46 and is using Openssl version 1.1.1f I have set the directive SSLCompression Off. Even if i enable it, it says SSL Compression is not supported, which is good I guess. But, when I use Firefox to see the webpage's HTTP headers, I…
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server core 2008 command

I want to extract a zip file on Server Core 2008. Can anyone tell me the command to do so?
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