If it stops, a lot of valuable hours of development time for an unknown number of devoted so aficionado will be lost. Most browser plugins including silverlight, flash, java and almost all activex controls only work in 32bit browsers currently. I then tried to see the behavior of silverlight as it delegates the request to the browser to do the actual call and there i noticed that compression works perfectly with silverlight on a service reference. The most common compression schemes include gzip and deflate. If no acceptencoding field is present in a request, the server may assume that the client will accept any content coding.
Having achieved the shiny desing then i created the web site for wcf service business logic. On the client silverlight side i check the content encoding header in. Cpdsp idc cur adm deli stp nav com uni int phy dem connection. Accept charset which character encodings the client understands. So the browser probably decompressed the response before silverlight will get the data stream. It is a common question people ask how do i get my data from the database to silverlight. Microsoft playready supports offline content via persistent license, subscription. What i have done now is adding an additional custom header that will essentially override the accept encoding header.
Request gzipped content in silverlight stack overflow. The purpose of this project, silverlight communicator, is to provide a simple, easy. For more information on reencoding content for iis media services. The contentencoding entity header is used to compress the mediatype. If i try to manually handle the accept encoding and then returning a. I have done all my developement, deployed the wcf service in iis and. Hi, i have silverlight app where i want to download assemblies from my server on demand rather than from within a xap. So, silverlight is sending accept encoding identity which equates to no encoding and apparently the servers are honoring it. The purpose of this project, silverlight communicator, is to provide a. Forthcoming components are live streaming, analytics, and identity management. Silverlight has myriad ways to connect to other systems and retrieve information for your applications. Accept language informs the server about the human language the server is expected to send.
When my service encounters this header itll compress the the content no matter whats in the accept encoding header. Use silverlight in the 32bit internet explorer process on x64 systems. Well start this chapter with the basics of silverlight networking and the limitations. Windows media player, you can install silverlight on all your clients. Accept informs the server about the types of data that can be sent back. Hello there, im new to the silvelight so it might be simple setting that im missing.
Im developing a sharepoint 2010 web part using silverlight, and am trying to retrieve part of a document stored inside sharepoint. Networking and communications silverlight 4 in action. Content encoding designations supported by the middleware are shown in the following table. Users cant download attachments to their local computer, and. Accept encoding the encoding algorithm, usually a compression algorithm, that can be used on the resource sent back. When i request a byte range of a file in sharepoint, the server responds with the entire file. Using content negotiation, the server selects one of the proposals, uses it and informs the client of its choice with the content encoding response header.
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