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Miron_du_Plessi
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Sep 27, 2010

Hiding Web Server

Hi,     We have a current requirement that involves serving web content from two separate web servers trying to make them look like the same from the clients perspective. (this is for migration ...
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hooleylist
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Sep 27, 2010
As Hamish suggested, you can check the server response code in HTTP_RESPONSE. You can use HTTP::request in HTTP_REQUEST to save the HTTP request headers. You can use HTTP::retry to retry the request. If you need to potentially retry requests with payloads, you would need to collect the request payload in HTTP_REQUEST with HTTP::collect and then access the payload in HTTP_REQUEST_DATA using HTTP::payload.

 

 

Here is a post with a related example:

 

 

Redirect if error

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&view=topic&postid=812647&ptarget=812648

 

 

And here is the main HTTP wiki page where you can get details on the mentioned commands and events:

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/http

 

 

Aaron