Advanced iRules: Sideband Connections
With the release of BIG-IP version 11 there are many, many new features and capabilities to come up to sped on. Not the least of which are the additions and changes to the already powerful iRules inf...
Updated Oct 02, 2023
Version 3.0
I know it's a little old but I see some users hit this issue where it doesn't work if you use a virtual server as the destination.
I hit that same issue my first time. What I realized was happening was that if I made the request to a virtual server the side band connection would pass my browsers original request instead of the request I crafted.
It turns out that if the virtual server in question has snat automap enabled it will pass the request I formatted instead of the original request.