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Jason_Drake_204
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Nov 16, 2016

Splash page with text from an external source in an iRule?

Hey All,   I'm looking to see if there is an easy way for the F5 receive partial content from an external source via a splash page within an irule or APM policy. So for instance, one would see a w...
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VernonWells
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Nov 16, 2016

Oh, and incidentally, you could still use an iFile (or set of iFiles), if you wished. You could use the iCall periodic method to grab text from a remote server (

tmsh modify sys file ifile
should support http retrieval, or you could write the retrieved text to the local filesystem and read from there). This method is less complex than the iRule sideband connection, but less suitable if the inserted message is likely to change frequently.