Simple HTTP compression for ColdFusion MX

I was looking for a simple way to compress web pages to reduce bandwidth and speed up the site .There's probably some good reasons why IIS and Apache don't include compression utilities by default, but the reasons for that are beyond my comprehension at the moment. There's some commercial products you can purchase for IIS which will compress all pages, but I was looking for the simpe/cheap option.

These 2 pages provided mw with the answers I needed:

• Poor Man's HTTP Compression with ColdFusion
• GZip compress filter

The basic methodology is to install a filter on your ColdFusion server to deliver gZip-ped content if browsers understand this format. Its not to be confused with ways to manage whitespace in pages.

Using this, my homepage file size reduced by about 60%.