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Moreli_Alama_63
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May 14, 2007

irule for 503 response to client

hi     i have a http VIP and am wanting to create a 503 response to the client   when the VIP is unavailable. how does one achieve this? i can see you can assign   monitors to pools but ...
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Bruno_12199
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Apr 03, 2009
Tx for the quick reply. In the mean time, we managed to have the fallback host respond with a 503 code, which would solve the mentioned problem (plus an additional in the HTML code). Nevertheless, I keep a bookmark on this iRule, and I'll let you know if/when I need to put it in place.