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Sep 17, 2018

Question on HTTP Persistence and iRules

My colleague and I seem to disagree on what happens with iRule processing on an HTTP Persistent connection. He thinks that if you have a rule that inspects a URI or SOAPAction header, that you can't ...
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Sep 17, 2018

Just to clarify my last sentence there, he's saying that if the conditions were not matched during the initial connection, they won't be matched on a subsequent persistent connection even if there is a match. I disagree with this because all these switch -glob examples out there that route specific URIs to specific pools wouldn't work regardless of where the connection occurred in an HTTP persistent connection setting.