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Blake_79204
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Jan 10, 2012

iRule/APM Authentication and Authorization with ODBC

Hello, I'm not a developer at all and am pretty much brand new to F5, as well, so if my question is a bit ignorant I apologize in advance. We're converting from our existing authentication scheme to A...
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Colin_Walker_12
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Jan 10, 2012
Well, if you're already going to have the output on an HTTP page as text, then reading it is relatively easy. iRules has access to the payload of every HTTP response that goes through the box, so all you'd need to do is extract the info you're looking for. There are some good examples of this in the CodeShare, but it's pretty straight-forward.

 

 

HTTP::collect in the response to collect the info, run comparisons against HTTP::payload to get the content you're looking for, etc.

 

 

Collect - http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.HTTP__collect.ashx

 

Payload - http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.HTTP__payload.ashx

 

 

If you have specific questions or need help getting started I'm sure we can help with that. ;)

 

 

Colin