Configure the F5 BIG-IP as an Explicit Forward Web Proxy Using LTM

Hi Steve.

Very interesting, thank you for the walkthrough. I tested this and it works quite well. I was wondering though what happens if you want to do URL Filtering. There is a guide for deploying an explicit forward proxy using APM and you can define URL Categories / URL Filtering there. Is it possible on this setup as well? I tried to apply certain iRules to restrict the explicit proxy to be able to reach e.g. *.microsoftupdates.com but it looks like the F5 doesn't really perceive this is an HTTP_REQUEST. I also tried to apply iRules on the wildcard VS, however no luck on that one as well.