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Ganesh_Ramamoor
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Jan 25, 2006

persistence on HTTP non-standard header

  Hello!     Is it possible to have persistence based on a non-standard HTTP header? I can't use "starts_with" or "contains" because I won't know what this header value could be. But if head...
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Colin_Walker_12
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Jan 25, 2006
This is certainly something that's possible via iRules.

It would look something like:


when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [HTTP::header exists header1] } {
    persist uie [HTTP::header header1]
  }
  pool http_pool
}

This would set the persistence record to use the value from the header1 header if it exists, regadless of client IP information or anything else. Otherwise, it would just send the request along to the pool as a normal, non persistent request.

HTH,

-Colin