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Lukasz_01_15307
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Sep 13, 2016
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irule executes twice when refreshing a website

Hello.. I have a really odd problem, my irule script works exactly every second time. I'm working with APIs and on the backend, they are setup to use apiName.example.com/api/id. For the real world, W...
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  • ekaleido's avatar
    ekaleido
    Sep 13, 2016

    Try unsetting your variables at the end of the iRule? Specifically...

     

    unset $newSubdomain

     

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ekaleido
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Sep 13, 2016

Try unsetting your variables at the end of the iRule? Specifically...

 

unset $newSubdomain

 

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Lukasz_01_15307
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Sep 13, 2016

the error was

warning: [variable reference used where variable name expected][$newSubdomain]

so I changed

unset $newSubdomain

to

unset newSubdomain

and it seems to be working.

Thanks! 🙂

a question... Why would irule require a variable to be unset? shouldn't all local variable be unset at the end of the script? as far as I know this is a local variable...