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Paul_Z
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Sep 30, 2021

Irule for fire and forget https virtual server

Hi, I'm trying to setup a virtual server that will accept requests from some internal clients and immediately return a 200 response and also fire the request at some external servers through an irule...
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Paul_Z's avatar
Paul_Z
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Oct 01, 2021

Hi, yes I've tried http::respond clientside at event HTTP_REQUEST_SEND, but the issue is the script stops & the request does not seem to be sent to the external server.

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Angelo_V
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Oct 01, 2021

I saw some irules that generated a new request using the "connect" and "send" commands

 

you can prepend them to the HTTP command: respond

 

https://clouddocs.f5.com/api/irules/SIDEBAND.html