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dlg_23340
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Nov 18, 2011

variables in a switch statement

What are my options for variable expansion in switch cases? It seems to me that in the following code, when i visit http://example.com/bar/test, I should get "you found foo." for my page content. In...
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nitass
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Nov 18, 2011
another one. 

[root@ve1023:Active] config  b rule myrule list
rule myrule {
   when HTTP_REQUEST {
        set foo "bar"
        switch -glob -- [URI::decode [HTTP::uri]] \
                "/$foo/*" { HTTP::respond 200 content "you found foo." }
}
}

[root@ve1023:Active] config  curl -i http://172.28.19.79/bar/abc
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: BigIP
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 14

you found foo.