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Ravindra's avatar
Ravindra
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Sep 27, 2017

NGINX http code 499 equivalent in F5

Hi Team, I am working on a migration from NGINX to F5 LTM. As per customer, they get http code 499 on nginx whenever a client closes the connection before backend server process it or send response. ...
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Lee_Sutcliffe
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Sep 27, 2017

F5 is a full TCP proxy, so by default will only forward status codes as sent by the backend servers/pool members. You can of course modify these or create custom status codes with an iRule dependent on your requirements

 

For example:

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if {YOUR-CLIENT-CLOSE-CONDITION} {
        HTTP::respond "499" -version 1.1 content "Some Content" 
    }
}

In your case you could read the client close on HTTP_REQUEST and respond with the desired status code. As this is on HTTP_REQUEST, it will respond with the defined status code and bypass load balancing to the backend server.

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.HTTP__respond.ashx