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dogg_dogg_23774
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Sep 21, 2006

replacing host header

I am trying to have Big-IP replace the original HOST header with IP address of pool member that Big-IP load-balanced to.   For example, when accessing VS www.xxx.yyy, replace the Host header to 10....
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Keith_106951
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Jan 30, 2008
Is that a valid scenario? I tried it and it resulted in the ltm restarting. A case with F5 resulted in the following response:

 

 

[The iRule is] attempting to use/manipulate the HTTP request in HTTP_REQUEST_SEND. HTTP_REQUEST_SEND is executed in the server-side context, so the HTTP commands are being serviced by the server-side, which does not yet have a response, so it panics, as executing HTTP commands in this context is unexpected.

 

 

Keith