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no-idea-what-im
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Jul 02, 2014

Exponential backoff iRule and True-Client-IP HTTP header

Hi,   I am working on using the exponential backoff iRule (https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/irules.POST-Request-Exponential-Backoff.ashx) to help with some suspicious login attempts.   The issue I ...
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nitass's avatar
nitass
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Jul 02, 2014

i am not sure why he uses static global variable for session_id and also include port into it. can you try to create session_id containing only ip in HTTP_REQUEST instead?

  set session_id "[HTTP::header "True-Client-IP"]"