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MK_62657
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Feb 13, 2008

Using F5 as a fall back host

Hello:     Is any using the F5 device itself as a fall back host? I would like to host the maintenance page on the device itself if possible instead of having another server as the fallback host...
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Geoff_31301
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Mar 19, 2008
One more question... can you run multiple iRules that reference "when HTTP_REQUEST" on the same Virtual Server or would you have to combine them into one iRule? I will need to have an iRule like the following example on the same VS:

when HTTP_REQUEST { 
      if {[HTTP::cookie exists "cookieName"]} { 
        HTTP::cookie decrypt "cookieName" "passphrase" 
      } 
  } 
   
  when HTTP_RESPONSE { 
      if {[HTTP::cookie exists "cookieName"]} { 
         HTTP::cookie encrypt "cookieName" "passphrase" 
      } 
  }

My guess is I would have to add in an elseif branch to the "if {[active_members myPool] == 0}{" to incorporate decrypting existing cookies within an HTTP Request.

Geoff