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JHally_43299
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Dec 21, 2011

Injecting latency into application requests?

Hello All,     is it possible to inject latency into client requests for an application to degrade the user experience?       the goal is to degrade performance of an application by a se...
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hoolio
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Dec 29, 2011
HTTP::collect with no byte size will stall the connection until HTTP::release is called:

 

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.http__collect.ashx

 

 

Also, if you use HTTP::collect without specifying a length, you must have some non-HTTP event (e.g. AUTH_SUCCESS or NAME_RESOLVED) run HTTP::release, or HTTP processing will not continue, and the collected data will be discarded when the connection times out.

 

 

 

Aaron