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juan_salinas_47
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Jul 09, 2010

issue with global variable in a simple irule

hi, first of all, excuse my english. i've implemented this simple irule: when RULE_INIT { set test 1 } when CACHE_REQUEST timing on { set httppath [string tolower [HTTP::path]] log local...
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hoolio
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Jul 12, 2010
If the only change you're making is to declare a global variable in RULE_INIT and TMM crashes, I think you've found a bug. I'd suggest opening a case with F5 Support.

 

 

For 10.x, if you want to maintain CMP compatibility, and you're wanting to use a variable that doesn't change and is accessible across all connections you can use 'set static::test 1' instead. See the CMP wiki page for details:

 

 

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

 

 

Aaron