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Altocumulus

Nov 18, 2022

Help deleting header name that contains curly braces

Hi Just a quick question. I was asked to use the F5 to remove a header name as follows {esbsoapheader}userName The header value was just fine. But I was asked to remove {esbsoapheader} from heade...

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Spencer_Aranda

Nov 18, 2022

I think I just figured it out guys Mohamed_Ahmed_Kansoh CA_Valli

Paste this and run it. It worked out for me. Now any of you can explain why this works?? Is this a bug with F5? At least it seems to me. If it is, how can I let them know so they can fix it.

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [HTTP::uri] eq "/demo2" } {
    HTTP::header insert "{esbsoapheader}userName" "spencer"
    foreach aHeader [HTTP::header names] {
      log local0. "HTTP Request Headers: $aHeader: [HTTP::header value $aHeader]"
    }
    log local0. "***************REMOVING BAD HEADER************"
    HTTP::header remove "\\{esbsoapheader\\}userName"
    foreach aHeader [HTTP::header names] {
      log local0. "HTTP Request Headers: $aHeader: [HTTP::header value $aHeader]"
    }
  }
}