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Marcel_Derksen_
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Nov 21, 2006

Find non http traffic on http port

Hi,

 

Just wondering. How can I identify non http traffic on a http-port (80).

 

Situation: we have a vip that does load balancing for transparent caching. Some applications (like skype) can use port 80 to communicate. I have a irule in place that check whether a http-request is submitted. When the pool is down the traffic gets forwarded to the next hop. Now I want to add the ability to check if non http-traffic is send on the http-port. If so i want to forward it.

 

 

Any ideas?

 

 

Marcel.

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  • Colin_Walker_12's avatar
    Colin_Walker_12
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    To do this you'd have to inspect the payload and/or headers to see if you're looking at a valid request. Checking the HTTP::header information inside the HTTP_REQUEST event should be enough to quickly tell you if you're getting a valid HTTP request or some other traffic over port 80.

     

     

    Colin