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zak_thompson_86
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May 16, 2007

npath and HTTP_REQUEST

So according to the documentation HTTP_REQUEST isn't support in L4.. ok.. so how does one split off various traffic to various servers? my old rule set would look at the HTTP::uri and depending on what was in it would fork off to certian pools. some media servers, some image servers and php/backend servers. we get MUCH better throughput using regular npath however sending these 50MB-1GB files back through the F5 device take a performance hit the larger the file is... is there a way to split the requests up into my different pools?

 

 

The only other solution we have is to use a subdomain and replace the code on the servers for various content.. however IE6/7 do not want to pass authentication from subdomain to subdomain but every other browser works fine.. only MS due to their "anti-phising" patch has screwed everything up.

 

 

The other alternative is to get the Advanced Authentication module and just control all the auth via ldap from the F5 device.

 

 

Any ideas??? Thanks!
  • if i change the profile to standard and use a http profile and disable translations.. logs show.

     

     

    http_process_state_cx_wait - Invalid action EV_INGRESS_DATA during ST_HTTP_CX_WAIT