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Stephan_Manthe1
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Jan 22, 2008

de-compressing serverside content?

hi all,

 

i´m trying to use compression on the serverside instead of the clientside:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

HTTP::header insert Accept-Encoding gzip

 

COMPRESS::enable

 

}

 

when HTTP_RESPONSE {

 

COMPRESS::disable

 

HTTP::release

 

}

 

 

a compression-profile with the "selective" mode was assigned to the virtual on 9.4.3hf3.

 

but the client still receives compressed content.

 

the big-ip does not de-compress the object and delivers the compressed content to the client.

 

compression headers in the responses are kept.

 

is the big-ip capable to uncompress the content?

 

i.e.:

 

 

when HTTP_RESPONSE {

 

COMPRESS::uncompress

 

}

 

 

thanks in advance,

 

stephan

 

 

ps: reason for asking this uncommon question is a customer, who wants to use a big-ip as a kind of local proxy for accessing remote ressources.

 

his clients dont support compression.

 

next thing i´m going to try is wam of course :-)

5 Replies

  • Deb_Allen_18's avatar
    Deb_Allen_18
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    Hi smanthey -

     

     

    LTM compression was intended to offload compression tasks from the server, rather than decompression tasks from the client, so I don't think there's any way to do that. Interesting idea, though...

     

     

    /deb
  • Neo_Moon_65417's avatar
    Neo_Moon_65417
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    Hi all,

     

    I am also having a request for decompression client reply for better utilization of mobile network bandwidth. Is this not possible to do decompress client replies?

     

    Thanks in advance,

     

    Neo
  • Hi Neo,

     

     

    It's not possible for LTM to decompress a client request or server response. If your customer needs this, you could submit an RFE or Idea.

     

     

    Aaron
  • Colin_Walker_12's avatar
    Colin_Walker_12
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    He meant "not possible". As Deb said above, years ago, our compression model is to ease the load on servers.

     

     

    Colin