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Matthieu_Ghilai
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Jun 28, 2016

How to do throttling based on HTTP URL in F5 BIG-IP?

Dear all,   I would like to know how to do message throttling in F5 BIG-IP for a bunch of SOAP services (say +-100). I want to have different rules for the different services. Is it possible to ha...
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Arnaud_Lemaire
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Jun 30, 2016

Hello some irules exists to rate limit. here is one : https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/rate-limit-http-requests

 

but we don't queue, we respond 50x in this example.

 

A queuing system could be implemented by parking requests information with a sideband call to another virtual server and storing in a table informations then retrying crafted request back to original VS. But this has to be implemented :)