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Pavan_Dhanushka
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Sep 23, 2020

X-Forward-Proto for HTTP version identifier(1.0/2)

I recently created & applied a HTTP/2 profile to a virtual server and its working successfully. Stakeholder wants to distinguish the connections b/w HTTP1 and HTTP2. And I'm planning to create a iRu...
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crodriguez
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Sep 24, 2020

You might be able to use the HTTP2::active command in the iRule to determine if the client connected using HTTP/2 or not. For example:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [HTTP2::active] } {
    log local0. "Request from HTTP/2 client"
  } else {
    log local0. "Request from HTTP client"
  }
}

You can find more information on HTTP2::active here. You can also check out the other HTTP2 commands here.

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    Pavan_Dhanushka
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    Sep 27, 2020

    @crodriguez Thanks for info. Let me try in my test VIP.