Effect of 'drop/discard' in HTTP_RESPONSE event?

 

I hope someone can answer this question. I have looked through the IRules command and am a bit stumped.

 

 

In the HTTP_RESPONSE I want to close the connection to the server but leave the F5->Client socket/HTTP alone as if "HTTP_RESPONSE" event was never fired. I want to do this based on some header value from the server.

 

 

It appears that drop and discard does not solve the problem. Both of these commands close the clients socket immediately.

 

 

Here is an example use case:

 

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Once I figure out how to do this I wan to be able to push data over the F5-Client TCP connection from another server at some point in the future. I believe OneConnect won't be useful for this use case.

 

 

Another way to think about this is I want to send HTTP Chunked responses from multiple servers for a single HTTP_REQUEST/HTTP_RESPONSE.

 

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

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