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vg
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Sep 17, 2020

irule to get the maintainance page data from third party portal

This is my first ever irule work I have come across. Problem Statement: We want to display the maintenance page during maintenance window. It is a static Unavailable.html page uploaded as ifile. W...
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Enes_Afsin_Al
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Sep 19, 2020

Hi vg,

Can you try adding variables in iFile (Unavailable.html)?

Example iFile:

<html>
<head>
    <title>We will back soon</title>
</head>
<body>
	Sorry, bla bla... $message <br><br>
	Planned Maintenance Hours: $hours
</body>
</html>

Example iRule:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
	set message "your message"
	set hours "00:01 - 02:00"
	HTTP::respond 200 content [subst [ifile get "Unavailable.html"]]
}

Output: