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Annsar_Akhtar
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Mar 17, 2015

Setting IP:remote_addr using a custom header

Hi All   We have a custom app which is hard coded to capture the ip:remote_addr and wondering if it possible to replace this with a custom header via an irule.   Currently the app logs the F5 s...
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Arie
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Mar 17, 2015

You can extract the value from the header that's inserted by the CDN and use it to populate your own header:

when HTTP_REQUEST { 

    HTTP::header insert True-Client-IP-CDN [HTTP::header value CDN-HEADER-NAME]

    log local0. "Client IP: [IP::client_addr]" 


}