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rlinton_204204
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May 28, 2015

iRule command to call another REST API?

Greetings. I'm wondering if there is a way to call another API via an iRule, then redirect based on the return value from that API call.   basically we have a URL pattern that contains an ID. I n...
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Scott_Hopkins
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May 28, 2015

Sounds like a sideband call would be what you're looking for (example here: https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare?sid=686) .

 

Not sure how many of these you get if this is something you should cache in a session table, or maybe even prefetch into a session table for performance reasons, but a remote call for each inbound seems like it would have a decent performance penalty.