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Vsevolod_Petrov
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Oct 31, 2013

local traffic policy http-header insert action

Hi! BIG-IP 11.4 introduces new feature called Local Traffic Policies. Could you please help with the question if it is possible to use iRules commands inside local traffic policies? I want use ...
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Vsevolod_Petrov
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I checked out and found we can use that commands in policies. That's great!

 

But by the way I've found another issue with policies. We can't use any special character (e.g. $, !, etc) as name. Using it is actually allowed by http but f5 filters it and generate error.

 

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Vsevolod_Petrov
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Nov 20, 2013
I wonder how I came to this conclusion that I can use commands in policies. But actually I have just checked it again and noticed that I can't use it at all. When I try to insert [IP::client_addr] it doesn't return ip address in request. All I see at server site is header My-Header-Client-IP with value [IP::client_addr]. It's terrible I spent a lot of time thinking it works.