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harsha_sharma_1
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Apr 13, 2016

I am facing issue with the integeration with the mobile application to F5, using clientless APM

The behavior of mobile application is very different as it first ask to user to enter the URL, on success validation with the server it displays the login form to enter credentials and Submit. When s...
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Usually to handle storable data in APM, you use Session Variables. Session variables can be GET and PUT any time after Access runs in the connection flow, using "ACCESS::session data set" and "ACCESS::session data get". In this way, you can transform an irule TCL variable into an APM session variable, or transform an APM session variable into a TCL variable.

 

If you want to perform some logic like "if xxx exist , then allow , otherwise deny" for APM, you usually do that inside of the Access Policy and NOT in irules.

 

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harsha_sharma_1
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Apr 13, 2016
Thanks for replying back, in client less mode, session gets only established when APM executes completely, so session variables canot be set or access, is there any other options other than session variables