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copied!<p>It was discovered thru trial and error that Azure CDN has a current limitation that it won't pass the <strong>Accept-Encoding</strong> HTTP header unless it finds a QueryString parameter containing a compressable filename type (<em>.js, .cs</em>) or you are requesting a file by its original name (<em>jquery.js, site.css, etc.</em>). </p> <p>What this means is that if you are using an <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4044455/where-is-webresource-axd">AXD resource handler</a> (<em>WebResource.axd, etc.</em>), the HTTP compression will not be performed. The Azure CDN will only pass the <strong>Accept-Encoding</strong> if you append a QueryString parameter with a <code>.cs</code> or <code>.js</code> extension. </p> <p>We are using a custom AXD resource handler, so this was easy for us to implement. We just applied <code>&group=core.js</code> and <code>&group=core.css</code> for our combined minified resources and the compression worked as expected. It's unfortunate this doesn't exist in the current <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windowsazure/ff919705.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Azure CDN documentation</a>.</p> <p>In short, we had to transform our URIs from this:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://xxxx.vo.msecnd.net/resourceManager.axd?token=HL80vX5hf3lIAAA" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://xxxx.vo.msecnd.net/resourceManager.axd?token=HL80vX5hf3lIAAA</a></p> </blockquote> <p>to this:</p> <blockquote> <p><a href="https://xxxx.vo.msecnd.net/resourceManager.axd?token=HL80vX5hf3lIAAA&group=core.js" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://xxxx.vo.msecnd.net/resourceManager.axd?token=HL80vX5hf3lIAAA&group=core.js</a></p> </blockquote> <p>Once the Azure CDN sees the <code>.js</code> in the querystring, it will return the compressed version of the resource.</p> <p>Hope this helps someone else using web resources (AXDs) served up via the Azure CDN.</p>

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