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Toni_5704
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Oct 26, 2010

irules and j_security_check

Hello,     Our security officer asked us to secure via SSL the user/password sent by our login page, and we would like to use the F5 to do this.       We are using the standard Jakarta T...
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hoolio
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Nov 22, 2010
Hi Jerome,

 

 

I always like the idea of using an iRule to enable/disable the stream filter. Without an iRule the filter is applied to request payloads as well as non-text responses. So you might get errant rewriting performed and will spend unnecessary cycles checking payloads that won't get rewritten. It's easy enough to create an iRule. You can check the STREAM::expression wiki page for examples:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/stream__expression

 

 

Aaron