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wilcdr
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Sep 12, 2014

HTTP compression profile and Content-Length header

I have an HTTP profile setup on one of my VS (LTM version 10.2.4), and it looks like sometimes the response to the client does not contain the Content-Length header specifying the compressed size. T...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Sep 12, 2014

The responses are probably Chunked. See here for details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding.

 

You can prevent this (and ensure a Content-Length header is sent) by change the Chunk setting in the related HTTP profile to Unchunk. Note however this may have an impact on performance and you should test carefully.