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assaf_benedic_1
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Aug 31, 2006

Identify HTTP requests in TCP traffic

Is it possible to redirect HTTP traffic that is not sent on port 80?     I other words, can I create an iRule that will analyze all TCP traffic and will redirect only traffic that has HTTP synt...
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unRuleY_95363
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Aug 31, 2006
There's nothing that prevents you from putting an http profile on any virtual. So, you would want to put an http profile on your virtual. Then you would do a rule like Denny previously posted, except when the payload does not contain a valid HTTP-like method, you could issue the command HTTP::disable which will take the http processing offline and allow the non-http traffic to proceed to wherever you declared it to go.