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Robb_Lyall_1456
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Nov 02, 2016

Hide internal server IP addresses from client.

Devs,   I have an interesting request that I need some help with.   I have a client that is wanting to rewrite the headers on an Apache server to change the URL/URI to hide all the inside IP ad...
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crodriguez
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Nov 02, 2016

You can easily implement an iRule that will remove any unwanted HTTP response headers using the HTTP::header remove command. There are many examples on DevCentral Here are links to a couple of them:

 

Strip HTTP Server Header

 

Remove X-Headers from Web Server Response

 

In newer releases of BIG-IP, you can also use a Local Traffic Policy to remove unwanted headers, which would be more efficient than an iRule.