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Annsar_Akhtar
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Oct 23, 2013

Irule query custom header

Hi Guys   We have requirement to capture the original client ip address but our hosted sites are proxied via Akamai who have an option to enable a custom header with the true client ip address.  ...
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Annsar_Akhtar
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Oct 23, 2013

I think I might have found the answer to my question and possibly an irule I could potentially modify etc..on https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/geoip-redirection-irule:

     Parse the client IP from the CDN header
    set client_ip [HTTP::header value "Client-IP"]
    if { $client_ip eq "" }{
         The header was empty/did not exist, so use the actual client IP
        set client_ip [IP::client_addr]

I dont know if the above is valid but if I am able to do something similar as what the client_ip is used for, then I could just replace with the Akamai_Header