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Gary_Bristol_19's avatar
Gary_Bristol_19
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Sep 16, 2015

setting a search string for persistance

I am needing to migrate some student information systems to the F5 but we have some very specific needs to be able to match on a string prefix for persistance. is the F5 able to do this ? thanks here is an example of what we are currently doing. content UATPORTAL1:80-79 add service Rod-80 add service Todd-80 add service Sorry 

advanced-balance cookies 
no persistent 
string process-length 15 
string prefix "fos.web.server=" 
protocol tcp 
url "//uatportal1.ou.edu:80/*" 
string range 1 to 1000 
active

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  • DevBabu's avatar
    DevBabu
    Icon for Cirrus rankCirrus
    Sep 16, 2015

    Will this help 

    https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.findstr.ashx

    for example:

    when HTTP_REQUEST { 
 set prefix [findstr [HTTP::uri] "" 1 1000] 
 if { $prefix != "" } { 
 persist uie $prefix 
 } 
}