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dragonflymr
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Dec 14, 2015

iRule - which option is better performance wise

Hi,   I need to reject request when given number of concurrent HTTP session is created (based on session cookie). So above limit I should not accept more requests.   I wonder which way will be le...
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Stanislas_Piro2
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Dec 14, 2015

Hi Piotr,

 

According to this article, CLIENT_DATA occurs after HTTP_REQUEST.

 

So checking HTTP variables may be better than searching in the entire TCP Payload.