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erikkari_267307
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Jan 19, 2017

VS in BigIP returns uncompressed HTTP response that was compressed by the backend Apache server

Our backend servers run Apache and compress the HTTP data, however, it seems from the VIP associated to backend node is unpacking the compressed data and sending it out uncompressed. This was verifie...
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  • erikkari_267307's avatar
    erikkari_267307
    Jan 20, 2017

    That was it: Removed the html profile and now compression works through VS in F5 as well.

     

    Thank you very much lheartF5 (sorry, can't see your actual name)!!!

     

    Did try to up vote your answer but the button was disabled. Did it later. So it's all done. Thanks again.

     

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IheartF5_45022
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Can you show vs config? Also the curl request/response headers for via the vs and direct to server?

 

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IheartF5_45022
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Jan 20, 2017

Does your Apache config only have compression configured on one vHost and not the default?