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kumar_gaurav_32
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May 19, 2017

ICAP SERVER CONCEPT

Hello everyone greeting of day....   I am trying to understand the concept of ICAP server in F5 BIG IP.Request you to please give me clarity on this...  
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Pedro_Haoa
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May 19, 2017

Hi,

 

Think about one HTTP Request traveling from a web browser to a BIG-IP Virtual Server. And then you want to implement malware scanning in a transparent way in your BIG-IP Full Proxy. So the BIG-IP system are going to be the ICAP client and it will send the HTTP request to a server for our malware scanning purpose.

 

That server will scan the HTTP Request and then will send it again to the BIG-IP system if everything it's OK and pass the scan. The server that scan and approves the content is called ICAP Server.

 

I hope it helps.