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atomicdog_7107
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May 04, 2015

chunking causing latency in iRule?

Hey guys, I have an iRule I'm testing that is inspecting some xml for a missing field and making a pool decision based on that. It is causing some latency when I apply it... 2 seconds when it is ap...
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BinaryCanary_19
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May 06, 2015
I thought chunking on requests is quite rare, so that's strange. Usually POSTs tend to use multipart encoding, which is similar to but not the same as chunking, and in that case using HTTP 1.0 or 1.1 shouldn't make a difference. It's difficult to guess what's going on without seeing the packet captures. Is there by any chance a content-length used in HTTP 1.0 and not HTTP 1.1?