"Overwrite Gzip and Brotli compression" rules causes CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED, 404 errors in wasm files

WebViewer Version: 7.3.0
IIS version 8.5.9600.16384
Windows Server Version : 6.2 (Build 9200)

I am trying to adhere to webviewer’s requirement of setting Content-Encoding to gzip and br to wasm files. I have added a rewrite rule shown here https://www.pdftron.com/documentation/web/faq/content-encoding/

But when I try to access a pdf in the viewer, I see a CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED error and some 404 errors. When I remove the rules, everything works OK, so my question is what am I doing wrong here?

Here is the CONTENT_DECODING_ERROR

Thanks in advance

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Hello Adrian,

Just to confirm, did you put the downloaded web.config file under /lib/core?

Andy Huang

Yes, initially I tried putting this web.config file inside the lib\core directory but it resulted in the same error. If I delete the web.config file inside lib\core folder, the error goes away.

Hello Adrian,

Can you please confirm that you have the IIS URL rewrite module installed?

https://www.iis.net/downloads/microsoft/url-rewrite

Also, once you have placed the config file, it would be recommended to restart IIS just in case.

Andy Huang