Allow disabling static assets compression for specific files

[rgroenewoudt]

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe the problem.

We are noticing that all files in wwwroot age have an additional compressed version in .gz & .br due static assets compression.
However robots.txt also receives a .br and .gz, which isn't needed as the compressed version is larger than the original version.

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like the ability to disable static assets compression for a specific file.
Perhaps ASP.NET should also check if the compressed file is actually smaller than the original file.

Additional context

Background:
We are using the combination Angular with ASP.NET Core and are building Angular first and copying into wwwroot directory to build ASP.NET project next.

[javiercn]

@rgroenewoudt thanks for contacting us.

You can do this with

<PropertyGroup>
  <CompressionExcludePatterns>$(CompressionExcludePatterns);robots.txt</CompressionExcludePatterns>
</PropertyGroup>

[rgroenewoudt]

Thanks, confirmed. Perhaps make it more clear in documentation? The property CompressionEnabled is also not easily found.