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Server-side compression
Hello,
I'm interested in enabling HTTP compression between an LTM and some servers, and having the client-side transactions uncompressed. Enabling compression in an HTTP profile will offload compression from the server (and place the compression load on the clients), but I'm interested in offloading compression from the client instead. Anyone know of an easy way to go about this? I'm guessing I could insert an "Accept-Encoding: gzip" header into requests and enable compression if the server responds appropriately, but I'm looking for a more straightforward solution to this.
Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance,
Travis
4 Replies
hoolioCirrostratus
Hi Travis,
Do you want LTM to compress request content between itself and the pool? If so, I don't think this is possible. If that's not what you're trying to do, can you clarify?
Aaron- Hi Aaron,
I'd like to have the responses from the server compressed between the server and the LTM, and have the responses uncompressed between the LTM and the client.
Does that clarify?
Regards,
Travis - hoolioHi Travis,
I don't think there is a way to have LTM uncompress the responses. Most solutions I've seen involve preventing the server from performing compression by removing the Accept-Encoding header from requests proxied to the pool.
Out of curiosity, why do you want to uncompress compressed from the server before sending the response back to the client? Is the server to LTM connection very slow?
Aaron - boneyard
MVP
not sure what the rules are about brining old topics back, but i have exactly the same question. is server side http compression possible?
the scenario is that the client can't do compression and much bandwidth is wasted due to unoptimized xml messages. of course the client could also be changed, but having the big-ip do it seems like a nice intermediate solution.
