(De)Compressing with ASP

[RFH Reseller: Richard Murrant]

Are there any components installed on the servers for compressing/decompressing to/from zip archives using ASP?

I just had a quick google and there seem to be lots available. If there isn't already one installed, is this something that other people would also be interested in having installed?

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

There isnt one installed, but if you find one just open a ticket and we will take a look

[RFH Reseller: Richard Murrant]

The 2 that seem to be most popular that I can find on Google are...

http://www.softcomplex.com/products/asp_zip_component/
$29 per server or $69 for a whole company

http://www.chilkatsoft.com/zip-activex.asp
$249 for site-wide use

The first of those seems to have plenty of people using it (and you can't really go wrong at that price!).

When we do a domain backup, what does that use for zipping?

[CS New Media]

The 2 that seem to be most popular that I can find on Google are...

http://www.softcomplex.com/products/asp_zip_component/
$29 per server or $69 for a whole company

http://www.chilkatsoft.com/zip-activex.asp
$249 for site-wide use

The first of those seems to have plenty of people using it (and you can't really go wrong at that price!).

When we do a domain backup, what does that use for zipping?

I think the top one will only work with IIS 4 & 5 - I believe Red Fox uses IIS6... I might be wrong though

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

I think the top one will only work with IIS 4 & 5 - I believe Red Fox uses IIS6... I might be wrong though

This i s correct.

[Staff: Warren Ashcroft]

When we do a domain backup, what does that use for zipping?

It simply calls the WinZip Command Line thing - you wouldnt be able to use that however.

[RFH Reseller: Richard Murrant]

Dear Richard,

Thank You for your interest to products of SoftComplex!
Yes, the ASP Zip Component is compatible with IIS 6 as well as with any system supporting calls to ActiveX from the scripts.

Don't hesitate to contact us again if you have any further questions.

Saturday, January 14, 2006, 10:25:08 AM, you wrote:

RM> Is ASP Zip compatible with IIS 6? Only IIS 4 & 5 are mentioned on the product features page.
RM>
RM> Thanks,
RM>
RM> Richard Murrant

[CS New Media]

I wouldn't want to go with a company that has a product with out of date of information on there website, especially considering IIS4 & 5 is very old, thus they are potentially losing money but advertising saying it does not support IIS6

[RFH Reseller: Richard Murrant]

Warren - anything ever happen with getting an ASP-accessible archiving tool?

[RFH Reseller: marty101]

It simply calls the WinZip Command Line thing - you wouldnt be able to use that however.

Eek. not very server friendly, I was using this mehod a long time ago for a Intranet/Extranet webservice i wrote for a magazine publishing company.

I found it very cpu hungry and was no good doing large compressions - http time outs.

the Zip framework is open source now, so in the end i used the framework dll do compess/decompress.. It was allot better handling memory/cpu usage and had no problem compressing 500Mb within the default http/iis timeout period.