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John_Heyer_1508
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Aug 09, 2017

iRule Variables and Connection Re-Use

I have an iRule that does 301 redirects within the same site, and have noticed when the client reuses the connection the variables seem to not be re-initialized.   when HTTP_REQUEST { set HO...
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cjunior
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Aug 09, 2017

Hi, I think it's a normal behavior when connections keeps alive. You may try to unset the variable and/or set connections to close on redirect.

 

if { [info exists ACTION] } {
      if { $ACTION eq "redirect" } {
        HTTP::respond 301 "Location" "https://$HOST$VALUE" Connection close
      }
     unset ACTION
}

 

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