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JoeK_10405
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Jan 16, 2009

Intercept client request to fix broken app

Breakfix Needed. Client requests causes app to loop and eat all resources, and fix will take some weeks to migrate through to production. So in the meantime, I need to leverage/show off iRules in our ...
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JoeK_10405
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Jan 16, 2009
Thanks for the response. 

 curl -v -X OPTIONS http://xxx/storeWeb/authentication/AuthenticationServlet 
 * About to connect() to xxx port 80 
 *   Trying 10.0.0.26... connected 
 * Connected to xxx (10.0.0.26) port 80 
 > OPTIONS /storeWeb/authentication/AuthenticationServlet HTTP/1.1 
 > User-Agent: curl/7.15.3 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.3 OpenSSL/0.9.7l zlib/1.1.4 
 > Host: xxx 
 > Accept: */* 
 >  
 < HTTP/1.0 200 OK 
 < Server: BigIP 
 * HTTP/1.0 connection set to keep alive! 
 < Connection: Keep-Alive 
 < Content-Length: 0 
 * Connection 0 to host xxx left intact 
 * Closing connection 0

Log shows the OPTIONS hit, a 200 OK, but not the HTTP::header insert:
Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm tmm[1995]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm tmm[1995]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm1 tmm1[1842]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm tmm[1995]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm tmm[1995]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm tmm[1995]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm tmm[1995]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm tmm[1995]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm tmm[1995]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm1 tmm1[1842]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm1 tmm1[1842]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm1 tmm1[1842]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm1 tmm1[1842]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm1 tmm1[1842]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm1 tmm1[1842]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm1 tmm1[1842]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected 
 Jan 16 13:03:51 tmm1 tmm1[1842]: Rule test_v1 : OPTIONS method detected