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Kevin_Stewart
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Sep 17, 2014

The HTTP_REQUEST event will fire before access policy evaluation. The iRule event in the APM visual policy triggers the ACCESS_POLICY_AGENT_EVENT event. So the above iRule example would preemptively respond with a 401 response before any traffic arrives at the access policy.