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bilsch_10068
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Oct 26, 2010

Fix to http persistence cookie logger irule

Was working with the persistence cookie logger irule, its logging the wrong value for ports.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/Persistence_Cookie_Logger.html

 

 

Original code

 

set myPortD [string trimleft [expr 0x[substr $myPortH 2 2]][expr 0x[substr $myPortH 0 2]] 0]

 


Should be
    set myPortD [string trimleft [expr 0x[substr $myPortH 2 2][substr $myPortH 0 2]] 0]
Per the docs https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/900/sol6917.html , the 2-byte hex values are reversed, so should be re-ordered. However the value should be a single string, not 2 unique hex values.
( not sure if this is the best/right way to post this 😆 )

 

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  • hooleylist's avatar
    hooleylist
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    Nov 03, 2010
    Hi Bilsch,

    Thanks for finding, fixing and pointing this out. Your interpretation looks correct to me: 

    
when RULE_INIT {

 From http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/900/sol6917.html
 For example, if the port of the destination server is 8080, the BIG-IP LTM encodes the port as follows:
 8080 = 0x1F90
 Reverse byte order = 0x901F
 0x901F = 36895

set myPortE 36895
set myPortH [format %x $myPortE]
log local0. "\$myPortE: $myPortE, \$myPortH, $myPortH"

 Old, wrong way
log local0. "Old: [expr 0x[substr $myPortH 2 2]][expr 0x[substr $myPortH 0 2]]"

 Updated, correct way
log local0. "New: [expr 0x[substr $myPortH 2 2][substr $myPortH 0 2]]"

 Log output:
 : $myPortE: 36895, $myPortH, 901f
 : Old: 31144
 : New: 8080
}

    Aaron