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Travis_Collavo_
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Apr 17, 2010

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 offloa...
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hoolio
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Apr 21, 2010
Hi 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