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MohanK's avatar
MohanK
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Oct 16, 2020

iRule for redirecting the traffic of GoogleBot to a different pool using X-Header Value

We need to redirect Google Bots traffic to another Pool, What is the effective and simple iRule I can use to accomplish that ? We can filter the traffic using X-Header Value, which is set to value "...
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Enes_Afsin_Al
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Oct 16, 2020

Hi MohanK,

when HTTP_REQUEST {
	if { [HTTP::header X-Forwarded-For] equals "8" && [string tolower [HTTP::header User-Agent]] contains "googlebot" } { 
		pool A 
	}
	else {
		pool default
	}
}