Serving wpad.dat with F5?

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Hmm, but can I do it with just iRule, as this http in one line and non easy editable is too complicated, actually the wpad.dat file is very simple javascript code like this:

 

 

 

  
  function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {  
  if(shExpMatch(host, "*[^0123456789.]*") == false)  
  if( isInNet(host, "127.0.0.0", "255.0.0.0")  
  || isInNet(host, "172.17.0.0", "255.255.0.0")  
  || isInNet(host, "172.18.0.0", "255.255.0.0")  
    
  )  
  return "DIRECT";  
  else  
  return "PROXY proxygateway.internal:8080; DIRECT";  
  )  
  

 

 

 

I found one one similar example - http://devcentral.f5.com/Wiki/default.aspx/iRules/LTMMaintenancePageLite.html but didn't figure how how to access access it from F5 with url like this - http://wpad.internal/wpad.dat