How to add Content-Encoding header to gzip files in ASP.NET?

Question

ASP.NET

I would like to give the client compressed files of scripts and styles. I configured webpack to build .gz files, but the problem is that the browser eventually cannot parse them. I found out that a special header is needed, but in my case you can't just set it "globally", since the HTML files themselves are not compressed.

app.UseStaticFiles(new StaticFileOptions {
   OnPrepareResponse = content => {
     if(content.File.Name.EndsWith(".js.gz")) {
       content.Context.Response.Headers["Content-Type"] = "text/javascript";
       content.Context.Response.Headers["Content-Encoding"] = "gzip";
     }
     if(content.File.Name.EndsWith(".css.gz")) {
       content.Context.Response.Headers["Content-Type"] = "text/css";
       content.Context.Response.Headers["Content-Encoding"] = "gzip";
     }
   }
 });

I found this option for adding headers only to statics, but it does not work. All other options on the Internet that I was able to find are similar or even copy this one. As a result, the browser receives gz files but cannot understand them

. Maybe someone has come across a similar one? I really want to optimize resource loading

Answer 1

You are not doing that. You don't need to do any gz files, the server will do everything for you, just enable static compression in IIS