title: What options are there to selectively enable or disable IIS 6 compression
body: <p>Unlike IIS7, in IIS6 the 'Compress application files' and 'Compress Static files' options are server wide so they apply to every website and virtual directory.</p>
  
  <p>I recently enabled it server wide and I'm beginning to see more and more places where things are being compressed that I don't want -- notably dynamically created images.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any kind of configuration for compression to enable or disable it for a 'web.config' based .NET application.</p>
  
  <p>I have ASP.NET 1.1, ASP.NET MVC 1.0 apps running on the machine.</p>
  
  <p>I've seen various 3rd party filters to compress content selectively -- is this really the best approach. These may be appropriate for me in the future but I'd rather not invest time in them now.</p>
  
  <p>I'd be fine if i could just disable compression selectively for one application I have (that dynamically creates images). Is this not possible within IIS / webconfig ?</p>