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Swordfish_11740
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Feb 07, 2013

Accepting Compressed Requests! NOT RESPONSES.

Hi All,   Perhaps we can do this with an iRule or some other solution?   Really just need to know if the above is even possible. I apologise if this is the wrong category as I am unsure of wher...
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Arie
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Feb 07, 2013

Are you referring to HTTP?

 

Which part of the request are you wanting to compress? If I'm not mistaken you can't compress the headers. In addition, even if you do compress the content the server may not accept that.

 

RFC 2616 deals with HTTP compression, but unfortunately there's not a lot of clarity on request compression.

 

Here's a write-up on request compression from IBM (WebSphere): http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/wci/v6r0m0/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.websphere.cast_iron.doc%2Fcompression_decompression_with_the_http_post_request_activity.html