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Problem with doubly-quoted string
This is related to this previous question I asked: https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/adding-cors-response-headers
I am now having a separate problem related to a new version of sample code in that thread, which was trying to return CORS headers automatically. Here's the problem fragment:
if { ( [HTTP::method] equals "OPTIONS" ) and ( [HTTP::host] contains "example.com"] ) and ( [HTTP::header] exists "Access-Control-Request-Method") } {
HTTP::respond 200 "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" "[HTTP::header Origin]" "Access-Control-Allow-Methods" "POST, GET, OPTIONS" "Access-Control-Allow-Headers" "[HTTP::header Access-Control-Request-Headers]" "Access-Control-Max-Age" "86400"
} elseif { ( [HTTP::host] contains "example.com"] ) and ( [HTTP::header] exists "Origin") } {
CORS GET/POST requests - set cors_origin variable
set cors_origin [HTTP::header Origin]
}
As you can see, each of the CORS response header names in the second line is enclosed in double-quotes, so the iRule treats them as strings.
However, when I try to deploy the iRule that contains this fragment, it fails, and I'm not sure why.
Could the problem be this bit:
"Access-Control-Allow-Headers" "[HTTP::header Access-Control-Request-Headers]"
Could the iRule think that Access-Control-Request-Headers is not a string? If so, what's the solution? Can I have a string within a string - I'm assumign this isn't valid:
"Access-Control-Allow-Headers" "[HTTP::header "Access-Control-Request-Headers"]"
- ArieAltostratus
Change
HTTP::respond 200 "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" "[HTTP::header Origin]"
to
HTTP::respond 200 "Access-Control-Allow-Origin" [HTTP::header Origin]
- ArieAltostratus
Additionally, change
"Access-Control-Allow-Headers" "[HTTP::header Access-Control-Request-Headers]"
to
"Access-Control-Allow-Headers" [HTTP::header "Access-Control-Request-Headers"]
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