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Lorn
Nimbostratus
Apr 26, 2013HTTP collect not working when POST is multiple TCP segments
When attempting to collect and parse data from the payload of an HTTP post, the HTTP collect command fails to gather any data when the HTTP request is across multiple TCP segments. If the HTTP reques...
Lorn
Nimbostratus
Apr 29, 2013Yes, the issue was trying to collect more payload data than existed when a content length wasn't specified. I changed the irule to only collect data when a content length header was present, however that brings up the potential DDoS attack where an attacker could arbitrarily set a content length header causing the session to stay open until the idle timeout expires. The link you provided to prevent this looks promising.
Thank you.
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