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adalan_1411
Nimbostratus
Aug 17, 2009HTTP Profile :: Vary Header Help
Not sure if this is the correct place for this, but I'm noticing what I would consider and abnormality in the way the VARY header is working. It seems to be adding a User-Agent component the vary hea...
dennypayne
Employee
Aug 17, 2009Vary headers allow you to change some element of a response (in this case, compression) based on a varying element of a request. Different browsers handle compression in different ways, so you typically want to vary on User-Agent to accommodate this. I believe that LTM has some built-in optimizations for compression if it is allowed to vary on User-Agent.
I'm sure you have your reasons for wanting to remove this (and I can't think of anything at the moment to improve on Aaron's solution), but that's why it is there.
Denny
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