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Devlin_T_149357
Apr 16, 2017

Stream Profile - Source Setting

Hi all   Can someone provide a real-world example of where we might use the 'Source' setting in the Stream Profile (the GUI, not an iRule)?   The F5 documentation is rather lacking in this fiel...
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Kevin_Davies_40's avatar
Kevin_Davies_40
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Apr 16, 2017

Here you go,

Source: Trump
Target: Clown

If only it was that easy.

It is purely for simple two way substitution. By far the biggest use case is offloading SSL. What it sees in the source is replaced with the target on the way to the server. What it sees in the target is replaced with the source on the way back from the server.

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Devlin_T_149357
Apr 18, 2017

Hi Kevin

 

First off, thanks for your humorous, yet accurate reply. My mistake here was that on the GUI profile settings I was still using the @ delimiter for both Source & Target fields. Soon as I removed this I could see clearly that whatever I added into the source was indeed modified as it went through the LTM to the back end server.

 

Interestingly you seem to be able to achieve the same thing by just using the target field. For example, if I were to use @trump@clown@, it would do the same thing.

 

Anyway, thank you again.