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sajmethod
Altostratus
AltostratusHi I am looking for some help with an irule that can call out to an api
I been pulled into a project that is replacing a mobile app. For the project they need f5 to do the following : listen for a http request on a vs and extract the bearer token fro that request...
irules is not good at parsing JSON key value in HTTP Payload, Initiating HTTPS connections on irules' sideband is also cumbersome
I suggest you use irules and cooperate with iRulesLX to initiate a sideband https connection using node.js,Node.js can use its built-in JSON library to handle JSON, which is very advantageous
Juergen_Mang
MVP
MVPYou can use this for call out to another http based service: https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/irules/HTTP-Super-SIDEBAND-Requestor-Client-Handles-Redirects-Cookies-Chunked-Transfer-APM-Access-etc.html
iRules have only string parsing capabilities, but if the json is simple enough, there is no need for a full json parser.
This thread reminds me, that I always wanted to write a simple json_get_key function for iRules...
sajmethodAltostratus
AltostratusI do not know how big the reponse JSON will be yet, per example it does not look like a lot of lines. I will take a look at the sideband request as I have not used that but the all the responses are pointing to sideband solution. I will look through the link you provided to get a better understandng of it and see if it can solve the problem.