I have created a simple HttpModule which removes whitespaces from response before sending it to the client. This works fine for an aspx page on IIS7.0 but if i create a static html page and call it, the HttpModule does not kick in (the way i know is because the source contains whitespaces, which otherwise should have been removed). Apparently there is something i m not doing right, but dont know what.
My website is in an Application Pool with .NET 4.0 and ManagedPipelineMode = Integrated
.
I have added my module as a ManagedModule and refers to an strong-name-key assembly from GAC.
thanks
Edit- here is the system.webserver part from web.config
<system.webServer>
...
<modules runAllManagedModulesForAllRequests="true">
<add name="RemoveWhitespaceHttpModule"
type="HttpModules.Modules.RemoveWhitespaceHttpModule, HttpModules,
Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=8a83u4bi47o9fo0d"
preCondition="" />
</modules>
<defaultDocument>
<files>
<add value="TestForm.aspx" />
</files>
</defaultDocument>
</system.webServer>
Edit- Fixed it. For anyone interested, this is how my module checks the response and then decides whether to proceed with whitespace removal or not
if (contentType.Equals("text/html")
&& httpContext.Response.StatusCode == 200
&& httpContext.CurrentHandler != null)
{ ... }
The problem was with the third condition above httpContext.CurrentHandler != null. when calling this module for static .html pages, the currentHandler was null and hence the code never went inside to manipulate html. i have removed this third condition and it works now. thanks for your answers everyone
This should do the trick, in the web.config:
This is a quick and easy solution, but can cause issues / performance issues.