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fpieressa
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Aug 25, 2015

WAT without disable HTTP compression

Hi! As I understand, if you want to do in a Virtual Server WAT (Web Address Translation), for an instance to map the URL www.external.com to www.internal.com (rewriting links in the HTTP response if ...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Aug 25, 2015

Compressed data isn't readable, so you'd definitely have to decompress it. But for a STREAM profile in the HTTP_RESPONSE event, you only need to disable server side compression - between the BIG-IP and backend server. Client side compression is still very much a possibility, though it must be controlled and terminated at the proxy. In other words, HTTP compression would be between the clients and the client side of the BIG-IP. Server side HTTP would not be compressed.