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catoverflow
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Apr 12, 2023

Issue with HTTP_RESPONSE_RELEASE and redirect

Hi everyone, I'm pretty new to F5 and I've a question, regarding the processing of iRules within the Virtual servers. Basically I have an irule that I use to log the requests and send a line into a p...
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Patrik_Jonsson
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Apr 13, 2023

Hi catoverflow !

Welcome to the magical world of iRules!

Have you tried caching the headers in another event? Any variable you set scoped to the connection so you can grab the data you need from any event that occurrs before the HTTP_RESPONSE_RELEASE event.

Check out this chart:
https://community.f5.com/t5/codeshare/irule-event-order-flowchart/ta-p/286343

Worth noting is that not all events has access to all fields, but it's easy enought to test. 🙂

Kind regards,
Patrik