rewriting links within content

Hi Ben,

The stream profile should rewrite any uncompressed response content that matches. The problem with using a stream profile without an iRule is that the all request and response payloads are inspected and potentially modified. If you don't need to rewrite request payloads and don't want to waste resources enabling the stream filter on non-text responses, it would be most efficient to use a STREAM::expression iRule to configure the stream profile. You can check the wiki page (Click here) for details on using STREAM::expression.

If the response content is compressed, you should ideally disable compression on the web servers. If that's not an option, you can remove the Accept-Encoding header using a custom HTTP profile with the "Header to remove" field set as "Accept-Encoding". Or you can add this to your stream iRule:

  
  when HTTP_REQUEST {  
      Prevent the server from sending a compressed response  
     HTTP::header remove Accept-Encoding  
  }  
  

You might also want to double-check the stream filter find/replace strings if the iRule doesn't work.

Aaron