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Genna_Reingold's avatar
Genna_Reingold
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May 31, 2021

How to use literals starting with "$" in iRule

Hi, I need to pass client certificate to WebSphere so the application can perform SSL based authentication. I following this article https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K95338243 However in WebSphe...
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Daniel_Wolf's avatar
Daniel_Wolf
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May 31, 2021

Hi Genna,

you can escape the '$' character with a '\'. This should work:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    HTTP::header insert "\$WSSC" [b64encode [SSL::cert 0]]
}

KR

Daniel