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ldrolez's avatar
ldrolez
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Dec 02, 2016

Forwarded HTTP Extension RFC 7239

Hi!

 

Is there any plan to support natively the RFC 7239 HTTP extension, Forwarded: headers ?

 

Best regards.

 

application delivery
LTM

4 Replies

    • ldrolez's avatar
      ldrolez
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      Dec 05, 2016
      • Yes it can be achieved via an iRule but for performance reasons we'd like to avoid this
      • We know that LTM supports X-Forwarded-For, but this is not a standard
      • RFC7239 "Forwarded:" headers is now a standard, but it's not supported natively by F5

      So that was a simple questions: Is there anything planned to support natively this standard? :)

       

  • Kai_Wilke's avatar
    Kai_Wilke
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    Dec 05, 2016

    Hi Idrolez,

     

    You may open a ticket and ask the F5 support to get sure and/or raise the importance-meter of this feature request. In any case please post the answer back here, so that other peers will get that information too... ;-)

     

    Thanks and Cheers, Kai

     

  • MR_RJ's avatar
    MR_RJ
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    Nov 20, 2018

    Latest update, today, from F5 regarding native support; "Consulting PD, there is an RFE for this, but currently there is no target version to officially add native support for RFC7239 in HTTP profile."

     

    Looks like F5 is spreading a bit thin due to so many products these days, the base-platform doesnt get the attention that their customers require.

     

    I can recommend the iRule to get this working until F5, some year, might add this to the http profile. https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/http-forwarded-header-injection-1083