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robor_127995
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Jul 30, 2007

Request towards external system in the iRule.

Hi,

 

 

I have been working on the SMTP proxy iRule. During the SMTP message proccessing I would like to make the request towards external system. It could be the HTTP request or string on sockect TCP request. Based on the response I would like to redirect the message to the right pool. My question is, if it is possible to make the external querry in the iRule. It is possible the send me any examples ?

 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

robert
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  • Deb_Allen_18's avatar
    Deb_Allen_18
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    Aug 09, 2007
    Hi robert -

     

     

    The only way I know of to make LTM initiate a connection to one host, then another, for the same connection would be to use the HTTP::retry command, but that wouldn't work in your case because the initial request isn't HTTP.

     

     

    /deb