Add option to gzip sitemaps?

[darrenshrwd]

In the home controller of templates could theoretically comment out and gzip as below, however that would negate the point of caching, so needs to be implemented and tested in GetSitemapDocuments() which is part of framework.

        //return this.Content(content, ContentType.Xml, Encoding.UTF8);
        string zippedContent;
        using (var memStreamIn = new MemoryStream(Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(content)))
        using (var memStreamOut = new MemoryStream())
        using (var gZipStream = new GZipStream(memStreamOut, CompressionMode.Compress))
        {
            memStreamIn.CopyTo(gZipStream);
            var buffer = Encoding.Unicode.GetBytes(content);
            gZipStream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);

            memStreamOut.Position = 0;
            using (var sr = new StreamReader(memStreamOut))
            {
                zippedContent = sr.ReadToEnd();
            }
        }
        return Content(zippedContent, "application/x-gzip", Encoding.UTF8);`

You may also want to add "application/x-gzip" to your ContentType enumeration.

[RehanSaeed]

ASP.NET Core 1.1 added GZIP compression. The template has been updated to include this.

Related: Dotnet-Boxed/Templates#124

[darrenshrwd]

You link to an issue that indicates you decided to NOT implement this in the ASP.NET Core version. However, I figured from that all I actually needed was to add the mimeType in my web.config

  <dynamicTypes>
    <add enabled="true" mimeType="application/xml" />
  </dynamicTypes>

[RehanSaeed]

The issue I linked was regarding an optional /sitemap.xml.gz URL that you can add. There was not much point when the normal /sitemap.xml can also be GZIP'ed.