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MGrift_57913
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Oct 30, 2012

Return a text string

We are looking to re-direct Microsoft Network Connect Service queries (http://www.msftncsi.com/ncsi.txt) to a virtual server, and serve up the string ourselves via an F5 iRule or other method.   T...
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Oct 30, 2012
i just corrected bracket and operator. 

[root@ve10:Active] config  b virtual bar list
virtual bar {
   snat automap
   pool foo
   destination 172.28.19.79:80
   ip protocol 6
   rules myrule
   profiles {
      http {}
      tcp {}
   }
}
[root@ve10:Active] config  b rule myrule list
rule myrule {
   when HTTP_REQUEST {
   if { [string tolower [HTTP::path]] ends_with "ncsi.txt" } {
      HTTP::respond 200 content "Microsoft NCSI" noserver Content-Type "text/html" Connection "Close"
   }
}
}
[root@ve10:Active] config  curl -i http://172.28.19.79/ncsi.txt
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: close
Content-Length: 14

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