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jlindwall_19593
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May 11, 2015

Are iRule instances scoped to a request/response?

I have an iRule that sets a variable in HTTP_REQUEST. In HTTP_RESPONSE, I read that variable. Is this going to work properly? What I am assuming (heh!) is that each request/response gets a unique ...
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Robert_Luechte2
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May 11, 2015

As a general case, you can consider the iRule will be "unique" to a particular TCP connection for a client. There can be several HTTP Request/Response pairs from that client, but other connections or clients will have a their own copies of the variables.