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Security Irules 101: Engage Cloak!

Introduction iRules are a powerful tool in the F5 administrators arsenal. They allow administrators to adapt and customize the F5 to their needs. They provide extensive power for securi...
Published Nov 15, 2014
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You can also restrict HTTP Response Headers with the LTM HTTP Profile.

 

Use the "Response Headers Allowed" flied to specify a whitespace delimeted list of allowed headers. Of course you wouldn't have any logging, but it's faster.

 

 

Example:

 

[root@bigip:Active] config tmsh modify ltm profile http YOUR_HTTP_PROFILE response-headers-permitted add { Accept-Range Cache-Control Content-Encoding Content-Length Content-Type Etag Last-Modified Pragma Set-Cookie }

 

 

For documentation see AskF5:

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/products/big-ip_ltm/manuals/product/ltm-concepts-11-2-1/ltm_http_profiles.html

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