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Avshalom_114801
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Feb 20, 2013

uncompress gzip REQUEST with JSON

I have a client app that send JSON requests to the server pool.   The requests are compressed with GZIP and I'm sending a Content-Encoding: gzip header.   F5 doesn't seem to uncompress the resp...
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Apr 30, 2018

As far as I know the LTM will pass-through compression headers and compressed content unless you have an http-compression profile attached to your virtual. My F5's have enough to do without adding uncompression to their load, and, more importantly, compression seems to break chunking with some HTTP client libraries, so I have never used a http-compression profile.