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Sergey_Izgiyaev's avatar
Sergey_Izgiyaev
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Oct 14, 2014
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Sideband connection - takes few seconds to get resonse

Hi, I've created the iRule that establishes sideband connection to make a decision what pool the original HTTP request to be sent according to the response data from the sideband virtual server. It t...
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  • R_Eastman_13667's avatar
    R_Eastman_13667
    Oct 14, 2014

    What is the timeout value you are setting in the connect string? The sideband connection will wait the timeout setting no matter if it only takes 30ms to receive the data. There is a solution to peek at the connection and return the data before the timeout value is reached. Search for "supersideband" in the wikis for iRule.

     

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R_Eastman_13667
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Oct 14, 2014

What is the timeout value you are setting in the connect string? The sideband connection will wait the timeout setting no matter if it only takes 30ms to receive the data. There is a solution to peek at the connection and return the data before the timeout value is reached. Search for "supersideband" in the wikis for iRule.