Is it generally better to compress content on the proxy server or the app server?

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Published on 2012-11-19T23:16:31Z Indexed on 2012/11/20 5:01 UTC
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We're using an F5 for load balancing and SSL proxying. Behind it we're serving up java applications with Tomcat instances. These are fairly small applications - hundreds of concurrent users.

I'd like to compress some of the content, and I'm looking for advice on choosing to configure compression on the F5, or on the tomcat instances. Any big factors in the decision, or is it 6-of-one half-dozen of the other?

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