BIG-IP® Local Traffic Management: Profiles Reference Version 13.0 Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction to Local Traffic Profiles........................................................................................ 7 Introduction to profiles........................................................................................................7 Profile types....................................................................................................................... 7 Default profiles................................................................................................................... 7 Custom and parent profiles................................................................................................8 The default profile as the parent profile..............................................................................9 The custom profile as the parent profile.............................................................................9 Profiles and virtual servers.................................................................................................9 Creating a local traffic profile............................................................................................10 Services Profiles.......................................................................................................................11 Overview of Services profiles...........................................................................................11 About HTTP profiles.........................................................................................................11 General HTTP properties...................................................................................... 11 HTTP settings........................................................................................................12 Enforcement settings.............................................................................................18 Explicit proxy settings............................................................................................20 sFlow settings........................................................................................................21 HSTS settings....................................................................................................... 21 About HTTP compression profiles................................................................................... 22 HTTP Compression profile options....................................................................... 22 URI compression...................................................................................................23 Content compression............................................................................................ 23 Preferred compression methods........................................................................... 23 Minimum content length for compression..............................................................23 Compression buffer size........................................................................................24 About the Vary header.......................................................................................... 24 Compression for HTTP/1.0 requests.....................................................................24 About the Accept-Encoding header.......................................................................24 Browser workarounds............................................................................................25 About Web Acceleration profiles...................................................................................... 25 Web Acceleration profile settings.......................................................................... 25 Web Acceleration Profile statistics description......................................................26 About FTP profiles........................................................................................................... 27 About DNS profiles...........................................................................................................28 About RTSP profiles.........................................................................................................28 About ICAP profiles..........................................................................................................29 About Request Adapt and Response Adapt profiles........................................................29 About RADIUS profiles.....................................................................................................29 About SMTP profiles........................................................................................................ 29 About SMTPS profiles......................................................................................................30 About Client LDAP and Server LDAP profiles..................................................................31 About iSession profiles.....................................................................................................31 Screen capture showing compression settings..................................................... 32 About Rewrite profiles......................................................................................................32 About URI translation............................................................................................ 33 Rules for matching requests to URI rules..............................................................34 About URI Rules....................................................................................................34 About Set-Cookie header translation.................................................................... 34 3 Table of Contents About XML profiles...........................................................................................................34 About HTTP2 profiles.......................................................................................................35 About HTTP/2 profiles...........................................................................................36 HTTP/2 profile settings..........................................................................................36 SOCKS profiles................................................................................................................37 About FIX profiles............................................................................................................ 38 About FIX profile tag substitution.......................................................................... 38 About steering traffic using the FIX profile............................................................ 39 About validating FIX messages.............................................................................39 About using SSL encryption for FIX messages.....................................................40 About logging FIX messages................................................................................ 40 About FIX profile statistics.....................................................................................41 About GTP profiles...........................................................................................................41 About WebSocket profiles................................................................................................41 About the IPSecALG profile............................................................................................. 42 Video Quality of Experience profiles................................................................................ 42 About the video Quality of Experience profile....................................................... 42 About mean opinion score.....................................................................................43 Content Profiles........................................................................................................................ 45 Introduction to HTML content modification.......................................................................45 About content selection types.......................................................................................... 45 Types of HTML rules........................................................................................................ 45 Sample HTML rules configuration....................................................................................46 Session Persistence Profiles...................................................................................................47 Introduction to session persistence profiles..................................................................... 47 Persistence profile types.................................................................................................. 47 Session persistence and iRules.......................................................................................49 HTTP requests and sesssion persistence........................................................................49 Criteria for session persistence........................................................................................49 The Match Across Services setting.......................................................................50 The Match Across Virtual Servers setting.............................................................50 The Match Across Pools setting............................................................................50