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thagmann_128177
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Mar 25, 2005

Compression iRules - GZIP vs. Deflate Preference

F5 DevCentral,     Hi, our understanding is that when doing a Profile that utilizes Compression that BIGIP will prefer the Deflate vs. GZIP method. We would like to have a rule that utiliz...
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Jun 07, 2005
Just an FYI but the Deflate and GZIP compression methods are exactly the same. The only difference between the two is that GZIP has additional data structures to support filenames/directories etc... The reason why F5 defaults to Deflate is because it will always give you smaller transfer sizes since web content does not the additional features GZIP provides.

 

 

See RFC1951 and RFC1952

 

 

-Corey