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Mike_62629
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May 19, 2008

Are http headers case sensitive?

I know the content-matching will be case sensitive, but when doing a header lookup, is the header name itself case sensitive? Meaning, will this: [HTTP::header "clientid"] ...
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hooleylist
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May 20, 2008
You could also send custom headers (and cookies) from the BIG-IP itself using curl. The BIG-IP can answer requests from the CLI to a VIP on 9.4.0 and above.

 

 

curl -k https://VIP/test/ -H "Host: somehost" -H "some_header: some_header_value" -H "Cookie: some_cookie=some_value"

 

 

Aaron