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mistergreg_6218
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Apr 20, 2011

iRule persistance based on HTTP header

I'm new to the F5 and am trying to persist HTTP requests based on an HTTP header. Basically, we have a custom app that is sending HTTP requests with a particular HTTP header that identifies the "devi...
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Apr 26, 2011
Aaron,

 

 

Seems like I should be able to get the equivalent of what I intended by choosing None for the fallback persistence profile and then updating the rule to this:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [HTTP::header exists "X-DeviceKey"] } {

 

persist uie [HTTP::header "X-DeviceKey"]

 

}

 

else {

 

persist source_addr

 

}

 

}

 

 

This appears to be working for me now.

 

 

Thanks for all your help.

 

 

--Greg