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mart_58302
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Aug 15, 2008

Serving wpad.dat with F5?

Hello.     Maybe wrong area, but I'm trying to find out, is it possible to use F5 himself as web server, to serve text based file like wpad.dat or cache.pac for clients?     How ...
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James_Quinby_46
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Aug 15, 2008
Mart -

 

 

It is possible to do this. Take a look at:

 

 

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

 

 

...for an example. This particular iRule serves content directly from the LTM (in this case, a maintenance page) and shows how/where to put the text and uuencoded graphics.