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RiverFish
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Dec 09, 2019

Forward request to IP contained in request header.

Customer is trying to avoid opening a bunch of firewall requests. They want to add a header (ex. DEST: 10.x.x.x) in the request that contains the real destination IP. When the VIP receives the reques...
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RiverFish
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Dec 09, 2019

We pieced this together. Hopefully it will work...

when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [HTTP::header exists "DEST-IP"] } {
    set DEST-IP [HTTP::header "DEST-IP"]
    log local0. "HTTP request DEST-IP: $DEST-IP"
    node $DEST-IP 443
} else {
    log local0. "No DEST-IP header found"
    drop
    return
}