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Hari_35305
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Oct 08, 2009

Servicing content from F5

This could be absurd, but I just got a scenario. Is there a possibility that certain static "http" content be posted to F5 and F5 serves the content whenever it sees a URI being accessed, say https://xyz.com/content. If the F5 sees https://xyz.com/content being accessed, it should service the content loaded onto it. Is it possible?

 

 

Thanks,

 

Hari
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  • The_Bhattman's avatar
    The_Bhattman
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    Oct 08, 2009
    Hi Hari,

     

    Well it's certainly possible. The F5 can render a page that is written into an Irule. However, keep in mind that the Irule wasn't really build to process complex static pages so the performance might not as fast as you want it.

     

     

    Here is an example from the samples page:

     

    http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/No_webserver_required_Network_Calculator.html

     

     

    CB

     

  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Oct 08, 2009
    In addition to CB's suggestion, you could also consider using RAM caching on LTM. In a simplistic view, the first request would be sent to the pool, but for static content, it would be cached in memory on LTM. Subsequent requests would then be answered directly from the LTM cache.

     

     

    Aaron