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SSHSSH_97332's avatar
SSHSSH_97332
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Sep 11, 2014

LTM Client Authentication

If i want users accessing VIP to be asked for user/password , Just simple pop up before they access the server Can i do that with only LTM without APM ?  
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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Sep 11, 2014

Certainly. At a bare minimum you can do this:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { not ( [HTTP::header exists Authorization] ) } {
        HTTP::respond 401 WWW-Authenticate "Basic realm=\Secured Area\""
    }
}

This will display a Basic authentication dialog on first request. If you then want to actually validate what the user enters, then take a look at this post:

https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/http-basic-access-authentication-irule-style