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Bret_McGinnis_1
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Aug 22, 2005

user_agent field in the http header

I would like to use the user_agent field to determine which pool a request goes to. Is there an easy or perfered way to access the user_angent field.     I looked at the doc and searched the fo...
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unRuleY_95363
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Aug 25, 2005
The other common way we solve this is to simply use string tolower on the result string before doing the conditional. So, IE:


when HTTP_REQUEST {
   set ua [string tolower [HTTP::header "User-Agent"]]
   if { $ua contains "test" } {
      pool testpool
   }
}