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BIG-IP WebAccelerator / VE
BIG-IP WebAccelerator System: Concepts
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BIG-IP WebAccelerator System: Concepts
Original Publication Date:
01/07/2013
Introducing Acceleration
Overview: Introduction to acceleration
Origin web server load balancing
About data center load balancing
Data compression
Data deduplication
Optimization of TCP connections
Caching objects
Optimization of HTTP protocol and web applications
Overview: The WebAccelerator system
Application management
Application monitoring
Deployment of the WebAccelerator system
Management of requests to origin web servers
Management of responses to clients
Flow of requests and responses
Using Acceleration Policies to Manage and Respond to HTTP Requests
Overview: Acceleration policies
Policies screen access
Types of acceleration policies
WebAccelerator policies options
Acceleration policy selection
Customization of acceleration policies
Creation of user-defined policies
Publication of acceleration policies
About the Acceleration Policy Editor role
Acceleration policies exported to XML files
Overview: Policy Matching
Resolution rules when multiple nodes match
Priority 1: An exact path match
Priority 2: A single extension node match
Priority 3: A single path segment match
Priority 4: Multiple extension matches
Unmatched requests
An example matching rule
Overview: Policy Editor screen
Policy Editor screen parts
Policy Tree
Acceleration policy rule inheritance
Inheritance rule parameters
Inheritance rule parameters override
Policy Tree modification for an acceleration policy
Overview: HTTP header parameters
Requirements for servicing requests
About the HTTP request process
Requirements for caching responses
About the HTTP responses process
Configuration of rules based on HTTP request headers
Specification of HTTP data type parameters for a rule
Host
Path
Extension
Query Parameter
Unnamed Query Parameter
Path Segment
Cookie
User Agent
Referrer
Protocol
Method
Header
Client IP
Content Type
Configuration of rules based on HTTP response headers
Classification of responses
Application of association acceleration policy rules
Assembly of responses
Regular expressions and meta tags for rules
Management of Cache-Control response headers
Cache-Control: no-cache directives
Cache-Control: max-age directives
X-WA-Info response headers
V code
S code
P code
A code
N code
RN code
U code
Reference summary for HTTP data
HTTP request data type parameters
Response status codes
S code definitions
HTTP data types for regular expression strings
Max age value for compiled responses
Meta characters
Advanced Debug settings for General Options
Differentiating Requests and Responses with Variation Rules
Overview: Variation rules
Cache efficiency improvement
User-specific content
Definition of variation rules parameters
Value groups
Management of conflicting rules parameters
Managing Compiled Responses with Assembly Rules
Overview: Assembly rules
Management of content served from origin web servers
Proxying Requests and Responses
Overview: Proxying rules
Proxying rules parameters
Managing Requests and Responses with Lifetime Rules
Overview: Lifetime rules
Lifetime managed requests
Lifetime managed responses
About specifying the amount of time to store cached content
About serving cached content when origin web server content is unavailable
About preserving origin web server headers and directives to downstream devices
Custom Cache-Control directives
About replacing origin web server headers and directives with a no-cache directive
Invalidating Cached Content
Overview: Invalidating cached content for an application
Overview: Invalidating cached content for a node
Invalidations triggers
Invalidations lifetime
Invalidations rules parameters
Request header matching criteria
Cached content to invalidate
Managing Object Types
Overview: Object classification
Classification by object type
Classification by group
Management of object types
Caching Objects in a VIPRION Cluster
Overview: Acceleration in a cluster
Immediately Caching Dynamic Objects
Overview: Caching an object on first hit
Accelerating Parallel HTTP Requests
Overview: HTTP request queuing
Accelerating Requests and Responses with Intelligent Browser Referencing
Overview: Reducing conditional GET requests with Intelligent Browser Referencing
About conditional GET requests
About Intelligent Browser Referencing for HTML
About Intelligent Browser Referencing for cascading style sheet files
About the adaptive Intelligent Browser Referencing lifetime
Intelligent Browser Referencing example
Advanced IBR settings for general options
Accelerating JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheet Files
Overview: Accelerating JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheet files
About reordering Cascading Style Sheet and JavaScript URLs and content
About minification of JavaScript and Cascading Style Sheet content
Establishing Additional TCP Connections with MultiConnect
Overview: Accelerating requests and responses with MultiConnect
Optimization of TCP connections
MultiConnect example
Serving Specific Hyperlinked Content with Parameter Value Substitution
Overview: Serving specific hyperlinked content with parameter value substitution
About configuring value substitution parameters for an assembly rule
About using number randomizer for parameter value substitution
A parameter value substitution example
Accelerating Access to PDF Content
Overview: Accelerating access to PDF content with PDF linearization
Accelerating Images with Image Optimization
Overview: Accelerating images with image optimization
Optimization of image format
Optimization with file compression
Optimization of headers
Optimization of sampling factor
Optimization with progressive encoding
Optimization of color values
Compressing Content from an Origin Web Server
Overview: Enabling content compression from an origin web server
Accelerating Responses with Metadata Cache Responses
Overview: Using Metadata cache responses to accelerate responses
Advanced Metadata Cache Options for General Options
Optimizing CDN Applications, such as SharePoint
Overview: Optimizing web-based applications, such as SharePoint
Acquiring Information About Intermediate Routers with Via Headers
Overview: Using Via headers
About using Via headers in requests and responses
About identifying intermediate routers with a Via header
About identifying protocols for intermediate routers with a Via header
Via Header settings
Accelerating Traffic with the HTTP Class Profile
About the HTTP Class profile
Using the Request Logging Profile
Overview: Configuring a Request Logging profile
About the Request Logging profile
Standard log formats
NCSA Common log format example
NCSA Combined log format example
W3C Extended log format example
Request Logging profile settings
Request Logging parameters
Monitoring WebAccelerator Module Application Performance
Overview: Monitoring the performance of a WebAccelerator application
Advanced performance monitor settings for general options
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