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Pytonius
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Nov 10, 2025
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APM HTTP Connector request and HTTP Headers

Hello,  can someone share working solution for populating variables, used to send APM HTTP connector auth request, from HTTP headers? User (API) sends credentials in HTTP headers X-LOGIN and X-TOKE...
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    Injeyan_Kostas
    Nov 10, 2025

    Hello Pytonius​ 

    setting custom variables in per request policy is not as easy as in a per session policy
    you can only set perflow.scratchpad and perflow.custom
    check this

    https://techdocs.f5.com/en-us/bigip-16-1-0/big-ip-access-policy-manager-per-request-policies/using-step-up-authentication/concepts-to-know-for-building-step-up-authentication.html

     

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Pytonius
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Nov 10, 2025

It works, thank you for pointing me the right direction! Even F5 support did not mentioned this limitation. 

If someone needs more details, here is similar scenario:

https://docs.corsha.com/integrations/f5/