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rmd1023
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Mar 12, 2013

Default behavior with server-compressed HTTP?

If I've got a server doing HTTP compression for traffic running through an LTM, does the LTM (rev 10) decompress (and then either recompress or pass the uncompressed traffic) the compressed HTTP traffic for standard servers by default?

 

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  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
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    Mar 12, 2013
    does the LTM (rev 10) decompress (and then either recompress or pass the uncompressed traffic) the compressed HTTP traffic for standard servers by default? i do not think bigip decompressing the compressed response from server.

     

    Since HTTP compression on the server prevents the BIG-IP system from reading the data stream and performing the intended replacement, you may need to configure the HTTP profile to remove the Accept-Encoding header in the request to prevent compression by the server

     

    sol8115: Overview of the Stream profile

     

    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/8000/100/sol8115.html

     

     

    when enabling compression in http profile, i understand bigip will remove Accept-Encoding header, so response from server should be uncompressed.

     

     

    sol3393: Overview of compression settings for the HTTP profile

     

    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/300/sol3393.html