From Support:
Perry,
Our escalation engineer notes that the BIG-IP LTM returns about 82K of data to the client before the iControl application issues a TCP Reset to terminate the connection. He is able to retrieve persistence data via a perl script, which runs successfully against v9.3.1 and v9.4.5-HF2 systems. He plans to update his 9.3.1 system to HF2, to match your environment, and to write a Visual C 2005 test application with which to continue analysis. He also notes that his perl script is able to parse the XML data being returned -- which is essentially identical to the results in the tcpdump/ssldump captures.
I'll continue updating you as I receive news. Thank you.
Respectfully,
Charles Curtis-Stanley | Senior Network Support Engineer
F5 Network Support