Managing Compiled Responses with Assembly Rules

The BIG-IP^® device manages content in the form of compiled responses in cache, which contain applets that the BIG-IP device uses to assemble pages. The BIG-IP device determines how to assemble content by using the following assessments from assembly rules.

• Which content assembly features to apply, such as Intelligent Browser Referencing and MultiConnect.
• How to change parameter values for embedded URLs by substituting values from the request, or by randomly generated values.

Because the BIG-IP device performs content assembly after it matches the response to a node, it always uses the matched response node's assembly rules, which it caches as part of the original compiled response. If the response matches to a different node than the request, the BIG-IP device considers the assembly rules associated with the request's node as irrelevant.