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heskez_36146
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Nov 28, 2013

favicon troubles keeps resulting in http 302 redirect

Hi,   We've problems with a website which always asks for the favicon.ico. When it's not to be found the bigip always sends back a 302 redirect and then the session times out. We tried to contro...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Nov 28, 2013

The F5 will not send a redirect unless it's configured to do so, as you've seen bigip in the Server HTTP header in the response to the client when it requests favicon.ico then it must be an irule sending it. I'd suggest you take a close look at the rule in question.

 

Note that removing the rules will not affect existing connections so I'd suggest you make sure you are opening a new connection/session when testing this (i.e. close your browser completely or use a completely different client et c.).