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GavinW_29074
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Sep 27, 2011

Catching Timeout and HTTP 502/503 Errors

Hi there,     Next question... One of the items that we've got set-up on our current Apache set-up is the ability to catch a 502 "Bad Gateway" and 503 "Service Unavailable" and return a 'Sorry,...
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hooleylist
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Sep 28, 2011
If you want to handle slow server responses, you could tune the TCP profile settings for triggering the LB_FAILED event:

 

 

LB_FAILED iRule event

 

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

 

 

sol7559: Overview of the TCP profile

 

http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/500/sol7559.html

 

 

Or you could use the after command in an iRule to set a timer in HTTP_REQUEST_SEND. The second example should give you a good start:

 

 

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

 

 

Aaron