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Nik2607's avatar
Nik2607
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Jan 07, 2022

iRule to set tcp timeout value for the specific URL

Hello Team, We have a requirement to set up an iRule to set the TCP timeout of 600 sec for a particular URL passing via F5 VIP. I took some help from the F5 Dev articles, here is the complete iRule ...
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JoshBecigneul
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Jan 07, 2022

Hi  To expand on Daniel's reply, the example iRule in the Clouddocs site includes some more logic to help weed out edge cases, and to answer your question about "why we need "set serverside_idle_timeout 1"", that is because the details from HTTP::host don't exist inside of the SERVER_CONNECTED event without being transferred through a variable.

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Jan 08, 2022

Erm, yes. I actually skipped to answer the question of "why". Thanks for closing this gap.