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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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Walter_Kacynski
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May 11, 2018

There is an iRule DECOMPRESS::enable request that will accomplish this goal. I opened a support case and the engineer gave me a solution. I tested it with an LTM policy or here is the iRule:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  log local0. "**HTTP Request Received**"
  if { [HTTP::header "Content-Encoding"] contains "gzip"} {
    DECOMPRESS::enable request
    log local0. "Content-Encoding is GZIP, DECOMPRESS"
  }
}

I verified that content is uncompressed.