Applying GZIP for a website under IIS?

How to find out whether particular web server's GZip is enabled or not and How to apply the GZip compressi开发者_如何学Pythonon for the web site under IIS 6.0?

The IIS GUI doesn't support turning compression on in IIS6. You'll need to update the IIS metabase directly with the settings instead.

The MSDN documentation gives a high level overview of HTTP compression but doesn't talk about getting the changes into the metabase. I found some instructions and a helpful metabase example.