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Well, you can do that actually. The only significant problem so far is that you're missing a request or two. If you take the response from one server (flowing back through the BIG-IP), and redirect it away from the client to another remote host, that host is expecting a request - not a response. If you know what the request is, you can write your own and send it. I like to think of it like a ping pong match - each request is followed by a response. You can't have a response without a request and a response would only come AFTER a request. Technically speaking these are different message types in HTTP, so you'd be sitting in the middle (at the net) proxying that information and potentially adding or removing data, and maybe even tilting the table. But you must absolutely keep the momentum going.