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Bob_10976
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May 05, 2010

Rejecting Blank Host

Hello all, we have created an iRule that is suppose to block request to a website with no Host Header. I've included the code below. The rule appears to be working, but we are getting the following ...
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hoolio
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May 11, 2010
Hi Bob,

I assume you were getting that error from the original version of the iRule. Have you tried testing with this version which doesn't use HTTP::respond? 


when HTTP_REQUEST {
   if { [HTTP::host] equals "" } {
      reject
   }
}

Aaron