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Raj_Barre's avatar
Raj_Barre
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Sep 08, 2018

Download issues with low speed connections on ASM

I am facing a peculiar problem with downloads for one of the applications. Download of large files are failing through ASM. For example, when I try to download a 400Mb file, the download reaches arou...
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samstep's avatar
samstep
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Sep 16, 2018

This has nothing to do with slow speeds. ASM is not designed to inspect files bigger than 50Mb.

 

You can increase this limit by changing the max_filtered_html_length setting. - check the support article here:

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K10007

 

As these are downloads from your own website I assume these are trusted files, so technically speaking you don't need to process them with ASM. In such case another option is to simply configure ASM to ignore these large file extensions (e.g. .ZIP extension) or disable ASM using an iRule - you will find many examples here on DevCentral