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mcallisterdu_59
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Mar 20, 2017

How to read (get) cookie expiry value?

Hi- the iRule documentation specifies that, on HTTP_RESPONSE, one can get (or set) the value of a cookie expiry. https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.HTTP__cookie.ashx I'm essentially trying to ...
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Jeff_Maddox_394
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Mar 22, 2017

Make sure when testing, all cookies are cleared. The expiry will appear in the server response that initially sets the cookie, but should not be in subsequent responses. Make sure in the testing, that particular response is being captured.

I am able to get this to work on a test page with the following:

 when HTTP_RESPONSE {
 if {[HTTP::cookie exists "NID"] } {
    set expires [HTTP::cookie expires "NID"]
    log local0. "$expires"
   }
 }

Log output:

bigip1 info tmm[10062]: Rule /Common/cookie_log : 1506041117