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MrRichard's avatar
MrRichard
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Aug 13, 2013

How to create iRule to deliver an alternate page response other than 'page unavailable'

When we currently disable one of the virtual servers in our setup, we get an 'unable to display this page' message in the browser. Rather than this, we would like to display a maintenance page so tha...
application delivery
devops
iRules
management
Arie's avatar
Arie
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Aug 13, 2013

One big problem I see with the various options above is that they use the Status Code 200, which signifies "OK". Since the situation is not OK the proper code should be issued, for instance:

 

HTTP::respond 404 content "html maintenance page..."

See section 10 of RFC 2616 for a list of proper Status Codes.