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brianokelly_119
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Mar 03, 2011

iRule to serve image to user

Hi All, We are trying to serve a 1MB image directly from a specific uri on a vip to test throughput up to the F5. As such we do not wish to put the base 64 encoded image data into the bigip.conf f...
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brianokelly_119
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Mar 06, 2011
Hi George,

 

 

Thanks for the response. The iRule cannot access the file system directly, however the following article:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/LTMMaintenancePage.html

 

 

 

describes how to use a class to store the image on disk. The iRule simply calls the class. This iRule will not be used in production, it is only to clarify throughput up to the F5 to verify the perimeter firewall and IPS are capable of operating at the designed throughput.

 

 

Brian