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NimbostratusiRule to access database
Is it possible to create an iRule that do something like getting a http header value and checking it against a database? We used to do this using Reactivity. Now we are trying to see if BigIP can do t...
Kirk_Bauer_1018Nimbostratus
NimbostratusI don't think it is a clean solution -- something like the Advanced Client Authentication module using an industry standard authentication database would be much better.
But if you have an external source trigger an occasional HTTP request through the BIG-IP to another external server that can provide the database dump in an easy-to-parse web page, then there is no reason you can't parse the results in an iRule, store it in a global array, and then use that array in another iRule to authenticate an HTTP header against the array. I don't know that it has ever been done before. The iRule can not request the database dump on its own, however.
