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nit8080_109161
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Feb 01, 2008

http_header("Authorization")

I need the iRule to set persistence based on the “Authorization” value in the HTTP header. On the old version 4 box, I did this by just putting   http_header("Authorization") in the expression fi...
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hoolio
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Jun 25, 2009
As you mention, HTTP::username is just parsed from the Authorization header by base64 decoding the value and splitting the user:pass on the colon. I'm not sure how using HTTP::username would work if using the full Authorization header wasn't working (assuming the user wasn't changing their password between every request).

 

 

Aaron