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Marc_13733
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Nov 04, 2013

Country code as X- Header

We've noticed that the F5 seems to know the country of visitors (presumably based on some IP lookup). Is there any way to get the F5 to pass the country code (e.g. "US" for U.S.A. or "DE" for Germany...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Nov 04, 2013

Take a look at the following wiki article on the whereis command:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.whereis.ashx

 

All modern F5 BIG-IPs come loaded with a "Geo-IP" database, primarily used for GTM geo-loadbalancing functions, but that is also accessible using the above command.