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trx
Jun 20, 2011

ssl (https) compression

I can't seem to post a forum to the "performance testings" as I've already joined the group, so I thought I post it on here.     Does anyone know if ssl compression can be done on the f5? I don...
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Jun 20, 2011
No, you'd need to decrypt the SSL on LTM if you want LTM to do HTTP compression. If that's not an option, then you could do it on the servers. If that's not feasible, then don't do compression at all.

 

 

Considering the support for SSL compression is limited to Chrome, I wouldn't bother considering it (even if it did perform well which it doesn't seem to).

 

 

Aaron