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Thomas_G_229697
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Oct 19, 2015

Nginx pool with gzip compression loadbalanced by F5

Hi there !

 

I would like to do a simple thing: serve gziped content to browsers.

 

I have a pool of static content served by nginx with compression included. This pool is behind a F5 Vip.

 

The problem is that i would like to continue to serve traffic with F5 with compression on nginx and not on F5.

 

Is this possible ? with a tricky iRule ? with a simple option on vip ?

 

I saw various things around iRules and Compression profile on F5 but no response to this.

 

Thanks, Regards,

 

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  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
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    Oct 19, 2015

    Not tricky at all. In the absence of any configured compression functions on the F5, it'll simply pass the HTTP payload as is, which could definitely be compressed. Of course if you want to do anything with that HTTP content (ie. payload manipulation), you'd need it uncompressed from the server, but otherwise nothing is required for this to work.