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Tim_E_299773
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May 02, 2017

iRule, ProxyPass Help

I am new to iRules and F5's and have inherited an iRule called ProxyPass. It references data groups and iFiles (which there are no iFiles in the list). I'm told ProxyPass is to redirect bogus (/whate...
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Leonardo_Souza's avatar
Leonardo_Souza
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May 02, 2017

Unless the iRule do some crazy stuff, 400+ lines is a lot of code. I would say that you can probably do the same with fewer lines, but without seen the code, is just a guess.

 

I will not, and I couldn't without seen the code, provide a full iRule for that. However, I will point you to some pages that will help you create the iRule.

 

To work with datagroups:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/irules.class.ashx

 

To work with iFiles:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/irules.ifile.ashx

 

Switch command:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/irules.switch.ashx

 

HTTP path:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/irules.http__path.ashx

 

You need to check if you want to use HTTP::redirect or HTTP::respond. Check the difference in this post:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/uri-translation-vs-httpredirect-irule-52327