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Sabeer_Ali_2389's avatar
Sabeer_Ali_2389
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Feb 05, 2016

X-Forwarded in F5

We have below X-Forwarded configured on our cisco ACE , now we are migrating the VIP to F5 LTM. How we can configure the X-Forwarded in F5 ?   insert-http X-Forwarded-Proto header-value "%is" ...
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Kai_Wilke's avatar
Kai_Wilke
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Feb 05, 2016

Hi Sabeer Ali,

no 

X-Forwarded-For
would just forward the IP. To forward other Information you should use the iRule below...

when CLIENT_ACCEPTED {
    if { [PROFILE::exists clientssl] } then {
        set client_protocol "https"
    } else {
        set client_protocol "http"
    }
}
when HTTP_REQUEST {
    HTTP::header insert "X-Forwarded-For" [IP::client_addr]
    HTTP::header insert "X-Forwarded-Proto" $client_protocol
    HTTP::header insert "X-Forwarded-Port" [TCP::client_port]
}

Cheers, Kai