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Cirrus
CirrusPossible to build data group from remote web page when client access specific uri?
All,
the goal I have is to write an IP filter for a web site (using an irule), however the list of IP's is going to be updated regularly (several times a day), and ideally should be pulled dow...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
EmployeeIf you're running v11 you can absolutely do this (quite easily) with sideband calls. If you're running pre-v11, you can still do it with the HTTP::retry and HTTP::request commands, but this method is a little complex.
I would also add that calling out to a remote web server adds a bit of latency. Not such a big deal if you're only doing it once per client session, but it can be significant if you need it per-request. An alternative might be to have an external monitor that regularly updates a data group via cURL requests to the web server.
