Bug ID 624361: Responses to some of the challenge JS are not zipped.

Last Modified: Aug 19, 2026

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

Known Affected Versions:
12.1.0, 12.1.0 hf1, 12.1.0 hf2, 12.1.1, 12.1.1 hf1, 12.1.1 hf2, 12.1.2, 12.1.2 hf1, 12.1.2 hf2, 12.1.3, 12.1.3.1, 12.1.3.2, 12.1.3.3, 12.1.3.4, 12.1.3.5, 12.1.3.6, 12.1.3.7, 12.1.4, 12.1.4.1, 12.1.5, 12.1.5.1, 12.1.5.2, 12.1.5.3, 12.1.6

Fixed In:
13.0.0

Opened: Oct 21, 2016

Severity: 3-Major

Symptoms

Performance is affected on the JS challenge.

Impact

1. These responses consume more CPU and more Bandwidth than needed. 2. Client-side latency is degraded. 3. More disk space is utilized than needed

Conditions

The following is turned on in the application dos configuration : CS challenge, or PBD challenge when Suspicious browsers are disabled or the Device-ID challenge.

Workaround

None.

Fix Information

Some of the JS challenge have better performance now.

Behavior Change

Guides & references

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