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Bill_Brazill's avatar
Bill_Brazill
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Jul 11, 2016

Trying to set a variable on content of SOAP envelope

While trying to help our DevOps team, I previously used another iRule I found on DevCentral as a template to do some throttling on http requests. With a few modifications, I got it working, and it w...
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BinaryCanary_19
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Jul 12, 2016

in theory, you can use the 

HTTP::collect
command to inspect HTTP payload as it streams by, but for a heavily used application, this will certainly impact performance, and to some extent latency.

might it not be better if you instead enforce by some HTTP Header, such as perhaps, the Session Cookie? If the application developers restrict each username to a single session (consult with them), then this is effectively the same as throttling by username. There are built-in commands for interacting with HTTP cookies and other Headers.