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Kalpesh_48932
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Feb 13, 2012

Http_referrer in iRule

Can anyone tell me how to use HTTP_Referrer in iRule...?     I have my current rule is     when HTTP_REQUEST { if {[active_members [LB:erver pool]] < 1} { HTTP::redirect "http://dev-sorry...
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hooleylist
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Feb 14, 2012
An HTTP user agent will likely ignore a Referer header that the server sets in a response. The client is responsible for setting the Referer header based on the URL which generated the request. See RFC2616 for details on this (or the wikipedia link Nitass linked to).

 

 

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