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Dave_24664
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Oct 07, 2011

irule to help me sleep

Hi all, hoping to get some pointers on how to start this little effort and to find out if it is even possible. Like many of you, you are likely responsible for your companies websites, and in our c...
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c_p_i_o_17707
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Oct 07, 2011
I'm wondering if the use of sideband connections (introduced in v11) could be used to solve this problem.

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1086484/v11-iRules-Intro-to-Sideband-Connections.aspx

 

Specifically, you'd try to open a sideband connection to Facebook/twitter and if it fails, enable/disable options on pages that are being served.

 

 

For replacing text, you could either use a stream profile in conjunction with STREAM:: iRule primitives.

 

 

For pixels, I'm not too sure.