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Ravi_K__Malhotr
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusSMTP support with X-Forwarded-For in One-Armed Deployment
referencing to one of the KBs i read in DevCentral, there it was mentioned that X-Forwarded-for does support SMTP Traffic as well, in addition to HTTP.
I just need to be sure on this.
Can anyone ple...
Kevin_Stewart
Employee
EmployeeNot at all true. XFF is an HTTP header.
SMTP is a clear text protocol, so you can technically inject information into it like client source address, but the mechanisms don't natively exist in the BIG-IP to do this. You'd need to create an SMTP proxy iRule (and there are few on DevCentral).
