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Cirrostratus

Aug 24, 2020

client request rule

Good day all, We have recently taken over a subsidary of ours and f5 is one of their devices. In a virtual service, this irule is found. I am trying to understand what this does with the virtu...

Andrew-F5
Aug 26, 2020
The very short summary: this iRule will (1) force an HTTP request to be resent if it initially receives a 4xx level response from the server (2) log the pool member that is selected after the first request fails and it retries (3) try selecting a new pool member if the first one fails.

LB::reselect
HTTP::retry

Andrew-F5

Employee

Aug 26, 2020

The very short summary: this iRule will (1) force an HTTP request to be resent if it initially receives a 4xx level response from the server (2) log the pool member that is selected after the first request fails and it retries (3) try selecting a new pool member if the first one fails.

LB::reselect

HTTP::retry