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1_21GigaWatts_2's avatar
1_21GigaWatts_2
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Oct 16, 2015

Set Content-Type to UTF-8 with iRule

If someone would be able to let me know if I'm able to create set an iRule on the F5 to set the Content-Type = UTF-8 for all incoming requests? Is it possible to set the content-type at the Header level rather than meta http-equiv?

 

I've been searching and reading for the last few days on the proper syntax to have all request set with UTF-8 by forced iRule however I'm coming up empty if this is possible.

 

Thanks

 

application delivery
BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
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    Oct 16, 2015

    At a minimum, something like this to update the incoming Content-Type header:

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { ( [HTTP::header exists Content-Type] ) and not ( [string tolower [HTTP::header Content-Type]] contains "charset=utf-8" ) } {
        HTTP::header replace Content-Type "[HTTP::header Content-Type]; charset=utf-8"      
    }
}