I need opinions on how to handle rejects

You are correct, I am hiding the scren shots yo posted. Thanks.

Hi mraful,

 

 

This is a great place to use a honeypot. If you know the approximate rate of requests a normal user would make to a virtual, you can set an upper bound of 10x the normal usage. If that user exceeds that threshold, then throw that user into a separate pool that goes nowhere. The table command (http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.table.ashx) is great for counting things and expiring those counters after a certain period of time. Hope this helps,

 

 

George

I have decided to do what I have seen before on the Wiki and forums and use a quick and dirty web page in response. Is there any way to do an HTTP::respond 404 content { HTML here}?

@watkins,

I like your idea. It would be interesting to build and test out.

@mraful,

Yes, you can create a valid iRule to do that, but I got mixed results when I tried it.

IE 8 ignored the content and displayed a default 404.

Chrome just declared the site broken.

Firefox displayed it as intended.

You can test it yourself if you like:

when HTTP_RESPONSE {
HTTP::respond 404 content "Site unavailable



Oops!  This site is unavailable.
NOTICE: The site you were trying to reach is unavailable.
"
}

@watkins,

I like your idea. It would be interesting to build and test out.

@mraful,

Yes, you can create a valid iRule to do that, but I got mixed results when I tried it.

IE 8 ignored the content and displayed a default 404.

Chrome just declared the site broken.

Firefox displayed it as intended.

You can test it yourself if you like:

when HTTP_RESPONSE {
HTTP::respond 404 content "Site unavailable



Oops!  This site is unavailable.
NOTICE: The site you were trying to reach is unavailable.
"
}