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Lorens_170609
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Sep 17, 2014

Add X-Forwarded-For to Proxy HTTP protocol

Hi, I have an f5 cluster in front of a squid proxy cluster, and I want my squids to get the X-Forwarded-For header, which is not the case today. My definition is as follows ltm virtual /intern...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Sep 17, 2014

In order to (easily) insert an HTTP header into the ingress flow, you'd need to apply an HTTP profile to your standard VIP configuration. You can also simply enable XFF insertion directly from within the HTTP profile. In lieu of actually adding an HTTP profile, you'd need an iRule that parses the raw layer 4 TCP data.