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Jaymz_mynes_653
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Dec 08, 2006

Authentication failures when using URI redirect iRules

I recently implemented URI redirects via iRules with help from this forum (post name: efficient irule writing) and they worked great. However, when the irule tries run a redirect to a site that requires authentication the authentication process breaks. It prompts three times for credentials then fails... Anyone had this experience before?

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Dec 12, 2006
    Hello,

     

     

    I think it would help to provide more detail on the overall scenario, the rule you are using and what requests/responses you are seeing during a failure.

     

     

    When the authentication succeeds, how is the first web app managing the session data? Is the first web app using a cookie? Is the client authenticating to a virtual server and then getting redirected to another URL? Else, when is the client redirected to the second site? Is the second site on the same domain as the first? Is the second request also going to a virtual server?

     

     

    You can get a lot more detail on the scenario by using a browser plugin like IEwatch or HTTPwatch for IE or LiveHttpHeaders for Firefox. Logging on the rule would help. And tcpdumps from the client and/or BIG-IP would provide more info.

     

     

    Aaron