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trx
Aug 05, 2010

Preserving user name and password/passing variables

Hello All, Is there any way to hold the user name/password values in a variable using IRules? Can we pass a variable from IRule to another IRule? ex) When going from from http to https triggere...
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Aug 10, 2010
Hi TRX,

 

 

You could use a blank stream profile and STREAM::expression based iRule to rewrite the response content for the login page(s) to change the form action from a local reference to an absolute reference to https. See the STREAM::expression wiki page for details:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Wiki/default.aspx/iRules/stream__expression

 

 

Also, you can save the user/pass to variables in an iRule. If you need to share them across TCP connections, you could use the session table or in 10.x, you can use tables:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Wiki/default.aspx/iRules/session

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Wiki/default.aspx/iRules/table

 

 

Aaron