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Nimbostratus
NimbostratusX-Forwarded-For - IRule
Hello, Im trying to implement a IRule to work with X-Forwarded-For HTTP headers, but it doesnt seems to be working correctly.
My IRule is the following:
if { [HTTP::header exists "X-Forwarded-For...
Hannes_RappNimbostratus
NimbostratusSeems like a bit odd way to go about solving a problem
May I ask, why do you prefer to persist connections off of the X-Forwarded-For Header? What's the point of doing that?
The whole purpose of X-Forwarded-For header is to provide visibility in a poorly designed network. It serves a purpose of providing client-IP visibility where it's otherwise not possible to extract this information from L4 headers due to source-address translation(s).