Bug ID 501714: System does not prevent low quality JPEGs from optimizing to higher quality (becoming larger) does not work when AAM image optimization enabled and JPEG quality in policy is higher than JPEGs on OWS.

Last Modified: Sep 13, 2023

Affected Product(s):
BIG-IP AAM(all modules)

Known Affected Versions:
11.5.1 HF1, 11.5.1 HF2, 11.5.1 HF3, 11.5.1 HF4, 11.5.1 HF5, 11.5.1 HF6, 11.5.1 HF7, 11.5.1 HF8, 11.5.1 HF9, 11.5.1 HF10, 11.5.1 HF11, 11.5.2 HF1, 11.5.3 HF1, 11.5.3 HF2, 11.5.4 HF1, 11.5.4 HF2, 11.5.4 HF3, 11.5.4 HF4, 11.5.0, 11.5.1, 11.5.2, 11.5.3, 11.6.0, 11.6.1, 11.6.2, 11.6.3, 11.6.3.1, 11.6.3.2, 11.6.3.3, 11.6.3.4, 11.6.4, 11.6.5, 11.6.5.1, 11.6.5.2, 11.6.5.3, 12.1.0 HF1, 12.1.0 HF2, 12.1.1 HF1, 12.1.1 HF2, 12.1.2 HF1, 12.1.2 HF2

Fixed In:
12.0.0, 11.6.1 HF1, 11.5.4

Opened: Jan 19, 2015

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

The test to prevent JPEGs on OWS with low quality from being 'optimized' to higher quality (if the quality setting in WAM policy is higher than in the file on OWS) is not working.

Impact

image optimization can make the file significantly bigger.

Conditions

AAM image optimization enabled and the JPEG quality in AAM policy is higher than the JPEGs on OWS.

Workaround

Add the line below to /service/wamd/settings (create the file if it does not exist): export WAMD_OPT_IMAGES_NO_BIGGER=all Note this will return the original file if the 'optimized' one comes out bigger: subtly different behavior than making any other requested changes but leaving the quality the same as the file on OWS.

Fix Information

The test to prevent low quality JPEGs from optimizing to higher quality (becoming larger) is fixed.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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