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fervin
Nimbostratus
May 08, 2012Sideband connection through direct HTTP proxy
Hey Folks,
I am trying to build upon the reCAPCHA iRule example for a production use case. The main problem I see is that our management tier doesn't have direct access to the Internet. All external connections must be permitted to go through a direct HTTP proxy server.
I'm not seeing that the sideband command supports proxy directives. Am I missing something? If not, does anyone have any suggestions on how we might be able to shoehorn in direct HTTP proxy support from a sideband connection?
Thanks in advance,
-Frank
- Joel_Moses
Nimbostratus
You're right, sideband doesn't include anything about use of HTTP proxies, but that's okay, because they should still be usable with a proxy. Remember that sideband connections are essentially open sockets -- they can speak anything you want to send through them. All you have to do is talk to the proxy using standard fully qualified URL requests and you should be okay. - fervin
Nimbostratus
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction. I think I'm close, but it's still not working. Do you know of any ways to troubleshoot sideband connection issues? I can connect to the proxy using telnet from the CLI, so I think that rules out a routing problem. - fervin
Nimbostratus
Okay, so now I think realize where I'm failing. - Joel_Moses
Nimbostratus
Frank: No, it looks like you'll need to route that coming out of TMM. The routes off the management interface aren't addressable by the sideband "connect" command, by design. - fervin
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Thanks, Joel. I really appreciate all your help. - The_Bhattman
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If this a hardware bigip you could attach to another segment that had connections the HTTP Proxy.
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