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Shruti_Malik_84's avatar
Shruti_Malik_84
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May 24, 2007

Log Bytes Send/Received (WEB TRAFFIC) in F5 via iRules or BIG-IP

    Hi All,     Is it possible to log the web traffic for a paricular incoming/outgoing https request i.e.' Bytes Send' and 'Bytes received'. The logging is required to be done by ei...
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Joe_Pruitt's avatar
Joe_Pruitt
May 25, 2007
If it's HTTP, then you can likely use the Content-Length header that the browser and server send to indicate the total length of the upcoming payload.

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  set request_length [HTTP::header "Content-Length"]
}
when HTTP_RESPONSE {
  log local0. "Request Size: $request_length, Response Size: [HTTP::header Content-Length]"
}

-Joe