Catch specific SSL errors/failures???

Sorry, $failure_result is calculated at runtime, so your solution of calling subst at runtime is perfect. You should be able to get the ifile contents in RULE_INIT using 'set static::error_page [ifile get error_page_html]' and then call subt against that with HTTP::respond:

 

 

HTTP::respond 403 content [subst $static::error_page] "Content-Type" "text/html" "Connection" "Close"

 

 

The advantage to doing this is that you're only loading the ifile once at load time instead of every request. I assume this is more efficient, but haven't tested it before. If you wanted to, you could enable timing on the iRule with the two different iRule versions and make a batch of requests to compare.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.timing.ashx

 

 

Aaron