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Al-Mutlaq_21911's avatar
Al-Mutlaq_21911
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Aug 26, 2015

direct traffic based on information from the XML request

Dear All,   I need a solution on IRULE for example to solve the following scenario:   I have 10 servers that will receive XML requests. the unique ID in each XML request will be a number such ...
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Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
Stanislas_Piro2
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Dec 17, 2015

Here the irule to do both XML and parameter parsing.

when CLIENT_ACCEPTED { 
    set default_pool [LB::server pool]
}

HTTP_REQUEST {
    set msisdn [URI::decode [URI::query [HTTP::uri] msisdn]]
    if {[string length $msisdn] } {
        switch -glob $msisdn {
            "*0" {
                if { [LB::status pool $default_pool member 172.24.248.85 8580] eq "up" } {
                    pool $default_pool member 172.24.248.85  8580
                } else {
                    pool $default_pool member 172.24.248.85  8680
                }
            }
            "*1" {
                if { [LB::status pool $default_pool member 172.24.248.85 8680] eq "up" } {
                    pool $default_pool member 172.24.248.85  8580
                } else {
                    pool $default_pool member 172.24.248.85  8680
                }
            }
            default {
                 send to a default pool or node
            }
        }  
    } elseif { [HTTP::header Content-Type] contains "xml" } {
        HTTP::collect [HTTP::header Content-Length]        
    }
}

when HTTP_REQUEST_DATA {
    set msisdn [string trim [findstr [HTTP::payload] "" 8 ""]]

    switch -glob $msisdn {
        "*0" {
            if { [LB::status pool $default_pool member 172.24.248.85 8580] eq "up" } {
                pool $default_pool member 172.24.248.85  8580
            } else {
                pool $default_pool member 172.24.248.85  8680
            }
        }
        "*1" {
            if { [LB::status pool $default_pool member 172.24.248.85 8680] eq "up" } {
                pool $default_pool member 172.24.248.85  8580
            } else {
                pool $default_pool member 172.24.248.85  8680
            }
        }
        default {
             send to a default pool or node
        }
    }  
}