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Chris1269_13050
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Aug 05, 2015

How to filter within iRule for HTTP_RESPONSE

Hi all, Is there anyway we can use an iRule to filter a HTTP_RESPONSE with whats in the HTTP header or something like that? We current use a filter like: when HTTP_RESPONSE { if {[LB::server pool...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Aug 05, 2015

It's based on the somewhat atomic relationship of an HTTP request and corresponding response of an otherwise stateless protocol. This isn't always the way it worked, especially with certain types of multiplexing, but it generally works well. It's also important to point out that variables exist within the span of a single TCP session, and in most cases the response to a request is in the same TCP session. Again, that's not the case in every environment.