# Stuff on compressing .TEXT RSS feeds from Jeff Julian

<datetime class="hidden">2004-02-29T00:00</datetime>
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Pretty useful if you don't have the ability to use [IIS compression](http://dotnetguy.techieswithcats.com/archives/003475.shtml) (or choose not to) - [Jeff Julian](http://geekswithblogs.net/jjulian/) has released a ['plugin' for .TEXT](http://geekswithblogs.net/jjulian/archive/2004/01/10/1211.aspx) which enables you to compress the RSS feeds produced by .TEXT 0.95 - which is very useful, most of my traffic for instance comes from the RSS feeds (I get around 200 HTML compared with 1800 RSS views per day). 
This uses the [HttpCompression module](http://www.blowery.org/code/HttpCompressionModule.html) by [Ben Lowery](http://www.blowery.org), which is in itself a brilliant way to enable compression. Ben also links to a [MS hotfix rollup package](http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=821156) which fixes an issue with HttpModules and Server.Transfer - am I the only one who's rerally annoyed that you have to contact MS to obtain this - what's wrong with just providing a download link (oh, [I'm not](http://weblogs.asp.net/pleloup/archive/2003/08/21/24869.aspx) - and i even [mentioned this before](/posts/460.aspx))?