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keefyweefy
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Mar 24, 2011

simple stream replace not working

Hi Guys,     I'm trying to replace text within webpages but things arn't going to plan! As a result i've stripped this to be as simple as possible but still no joy. I've tried doing this two w...
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hooleylist
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Mar 24, 2011
Hi Keith,

 

 

The most common reason for replacements not being made is that the server is sending compressed data. Can you use a browser plugin like Fiddler2 or HttpFox to check for this? If so, you can either disable this option on the server, or add code to your iRule to prevent compression from being used. The STREAM::expression wiki page shows how to do this by removing the Accept-Encoding header:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/stream__expression

 

 

Aaron