irule with date check possible?

Sure it's possible. By using the TCL clock command it's rather simple:

 

 

Something like this should do the trick:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST { 
   if { [clock seconds] < [clock scan {2008-07-04}] } { 
     HTTP::redirect "http://someothersite" 
   } 
 }

 

 

 

 

 

The clock command uses the number of seconds since the epoch (1970/01/01-00:00:00) if you were interested.

 

 

*warning, this hasn't been tested so give it a little bit of testing first.

 

 

Oh, and if you want to optimize the iRule a bit, log out what the value is from the "clock scan" command and hard code that in. That way you won't need to parse the date each time a request comes in.

 

 

One more thing... The tech tip I wrote on iRule Maintenance Windows might be of some interest to you as well:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63&articleType=ArticleView&articleId=70

 

Click here

 

 

 

Hope this helps...

 

 

-Joe