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NimbostratusUser-Agent header replacement
Hi everyone. I have an old Oracle Application server that will only work with Kerberos for SSO if the User agent string matches IE 6 on Windows XP. This is a problem as we haven't been running that for quite some time; however it wasn't really a big issue for many people. With a new push internally we have been pushing out Win7 to the majority of users so this will become a much larger problem.
My question is this: Can I rewrite the headers for all traffic going to the App server to show the "correct" user agent? I have the rule below, but it doesn't seem to be working.
when HTTP_REQUEST {
HTTP::header replace "User-Agent" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
}
This Virtual Server is all in SSL and I have client and server SSL certificates so I can to the unencrypt and reencrypt. What am I missing? Thanks a lot for all your help over the years, I have stalked this forum for a long time.
Jason
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Tim_K_92675Cirrostratus
I tried your irule and it worked fine in my test environment. Can you tell if the irule is being applied to the request via logging?
when HTTP_REQUEST {
log local0. "[HTTP::header User-Agent]"
HTTP::header replace "User-Agent" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)"
log local0. "[HTTP::header User-Agent]"
}
jasonabbott_407Wow; thanks for that. A little bit of trying to figure out why my rules weren't applying and I found out that someone had changed the DNS for the service to bypass my LTM. Now that that is sorted; it seems to be applying. Thanks for the ideas to look at!
