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Domel_163525
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Jul 03, 2018

LTM iRule to pass generic (hardcoded) credentials to a web login page

Hey guys,   I'm having very similar, if not exactly the same, challenge as the one below, to pass a username and password to a login web page. The user name and password are generic and needs to b...
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Domel_163525
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Jul 03, 2018

Currently when user browse to the URL, F5 VS will load-balancer will forward the traffic to one of the backend web servers. For the user, in order to see the page content, authentication is required. All the users use the same generic account to log-on.

 

What I would like to do is to pass that generic username * password within the iRule so whoever goes to the URL will be immediately presented with the page content.

 

I guess it is some kind of SSO.

 

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