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Christopher_J_B
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratussignature header authentication
Any one create an iRule to perform - Signed Header Authentication ?
Basically the F5 would need to decrypt/validate received HTTP header(s) that are encrypted with a private key (shared bet...
Christopher_J_BNimbostratus
NimbostratusThis would be Akamai's g2o authentication used for CDN
The F5 will receive from Akamai edge servers a pair of headers. One in plain text with some data fields (time in epoch format, unique id, ...) and another with a base64 encoded signature. The signature is a hash (md5) of some of the data fields in the first header and a pre-shared secret.