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Getting Started with iRules: Events & Priorities

As this series steams on we go deeper and deeper into what actually drives iRules as a technology. So far we have covered very basic concepts, from core programming ideas and F5 basic terminology thr...
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@jross, I'd log in each event to be sure, but since the XML would be the HTTP payload, IF you are collecting http payload, I would like HTTP_REQUEST_DATA would fire first, then the xml event immediately after you released it. But if you aren't doing an HTTP::collect, HTTP_REQUEST_DATA won't fire at all, and the xml event would fire after HTTP_REQUEST.