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AlexDeMarco's avatar
AlexDeMarco
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Feb 19, 2018

Upgraded from 11.6 to 12.x and now getting an error

This line set pathcheck [URI::path [HTTP::uri] 2 2] is now throwing this error at run time: "end value (2) not greater than start value (2)"7448 25][URI::path [HTTP::uri] 2 2]

 

However I do not understand why? Any pointers would be appreciated.

 

thank you!

 

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  • rob_carr's avatar
    rob_carr
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    Feb 20, 2018

    On a local lab F5, I created the simple rule below:

    ltm rule testing_URI_path {
when RULE_INIT {
    set test_uri "/path/to/file.ext?param=value"
    log local0. "\[URI::path $test_uri\]: [URI::path $test_uri 1 1]"
}
}

    Which resulted in the log output below:

    Feb 19 17:49:40 bigip1 warning mcpd[6521]: 01071859:4: Warning generated : /Common/testing_URI_path:3: warning: [The following errors were not caught before. Please correct the script in order to avoid future disruption. "end value (2) not greater than start value (2)"109 23][URI::path $test_uri 2 2]
Feb 19 17:49:40 bigip1 info tmm1[25355]: Rule /Common/testing_URI_path : [URI::path /path/to/file.ext?param=value]: /to/
Feb 19 17:49:40 bigip1 info tmm[25355]: Rule /Common/testing_URI_path : [URI::path /path/to/file.ext?param=value]: /to/

    It looks to me like the form of URI::path with same start and finish values is set to be deprecated in a future release, and while the parser is allowing it now, it's warning about this usage.

    You might consider calling F5 support to verify if that's the case.