multiple rules / header info removing

You're not slow. There are couple of things here that are not quite intuitive:

 

 

1)

 

HTTP_RESPONSE is specific to a SERVER response passing through the load balancer, and is not triggered for locally-generated responses. In this context, since there is no server response, no HTTP_RESPONSE event is triggered.

 

 

and even if the response event were triggered:

 

2) HTTP::header commands affect only headers passing THROUGH the load balancer, not locally-generated responses. (I'd imagine that it's a timing issue: We can't modify the response before it exists, but the response doesn't exist until LTM sends it, and we can't modify it after it's been sent...) In this context, the redirect response is locally generated, so we can't affect it with the header commands.

 

 

Hopefully that explains better.

 

 

You can apply the TCP::respond workaround to HTTP virtual servers, but I don't have a good one for HTTPS virtuals.

 

 

Good luck!

 

/deb