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Snl's avatar
Snl
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Oct 24, 2018

Irule help

Folks

i am looking irule which help me on below requirement

TCP/HTTP session has to be gracefully closed when we get response from server as 204

is below irule can help 

when HTTP_RESPONSE_RELEASE {
      if { [HTTP::status] == 204 }{

         log local0. "HTTP close" 
    HTTP::close 
     log local0. "TCP close" 
    TCP::close 
 }
    }
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  • Andy_McGrath's avatar
    Andy_McGrath
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    Oct 24, 2018

    I wouldn't close the HTTP session in the event 

    HTTP_RESPONSE_RELEASE
    as the HTTP response is about to be released from the F5 to the client but I would use the 
    HTTP_RESPONSE
    event.

    If you need to ensure it is the last 

    HTTP_RESPONSE
    event then you can add a priority of 900 e.g. 
    when HTTP_RESPONSE priority 900 {

    I do not think you need to close the TCP session else you will not send a response to the client at all and the command 

    HTTP::close
    should close the connection after sending the response with the inserted header Connection: Close.

    when HTTP_RESPONSE {
    if {[HTTP::status] == 204}{
        log local0. "HTTP close" 
        HTTP::close 
    }
}

    Finally HTTP is stateless so even if the browser closes the TCP connection down following the response header Connection: Close being received it will likely just open a new one if it has another request to send. So this is removing the use of Connection: keep-alive from the client.