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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

Not at all. The HTTP_REQUEST is a client side ingress event - it's triggered from the client's HTTP request. So essentially what you're doing is removing the Accept-Encoding header from the request (if the client is sending it) to the server so that the server will not compress its responses.