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Billy_56049
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Jul 13, 2011

Replace or Remove Server tag from HTTP header

Hi!

 

 

I'm trying to remove Server tag from HTTP Header. Actually, I'm using redirect for HTTP to HTTPS.

 

 

I applied the following irule:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

 

TCP::respond "HTTP/1.0 302 Found\r\nLocation: http://$site/site/index.seam\r\nConnection: close\r\nContent-Length: 0\r\n\r\n"

 

TCP::close

 

}

 

 

Afterwards, I did this test:

 

 

 

nc -vv xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx 80

 

Warning: forward host lookup failed for xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.static.impsat.net.br: Unknown host : Connection timed out

 

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.static.impsat.net.br [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] 80 (www) open

 

HEAD / HTTP/1.0

 

 

 

HTTP/1.0 302 Found

 

Location: http://my.site.com/index.htm

 

Server: BigIP

 

Connection: close

 

Content-Length: 0

 

 

 

HTTP/1.0 302 Found

 

Location: http://my.site.com/index.htm

 

Connection: close

 

Content-Length: 0

 

 

The problem is: I can't remove Server tag, I just add another.

 

 

Could you help me?

 

 

Many thanks

 

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  • hooleylist's avatar
    hooleylist
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    Jul 13, 2011
    Hi Billy,

     

     

    If that was the exact TCP::respond command you used, it couldn't have had the Server: BigIP header from the iRule. Maybe you have another iRule you saw that with?

     

     

    Regardless, on 9.4.2 and higher, you can use HTTP::respond with the noserver flag to suppress the Server: BigIP header:

     

     

    from http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/http__respond

     

    HTTP::respond 302 noserver Location "https://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]"

     

     

    Aaron
  • Billy_56049's avatar
    Billy_56049
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    Jul 13, 2011
    Hey Aaron... Thank you so much for your support.

     

     

    So... I'm using BigIP10.1.0... I tried to use HTTP::respond on "When HTTP_REQUEST" and I hadn't success.

     

     

    The message is: Many redirect were found...

     

     

    Do you have any idea my friend?

     

     

    Thank you so much
  • hooleylist's avatar
    hooleylist
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    Jul 13, 2011
    Hi Billy,

     

     

    Can you post anonymized copies of the iRules you have enabled on this virtual server? You can use [ code ] [/ code ] blocks to post them here (without the spaces).

     

     

    Aaron
  • Billy_56049's avatar
    Billy_56049
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    Jul 13, 2011
    AAron... The problem is solved! :-)

     

     

    I repleced all redirects for respond.

     

     

    Example:

     

     

    HTTP::redirect "http://$site/survey1/"

     

    for

     

    HTTP::respond 302 noserver Location "http://$site/survey1/"

     

     

    Thank you so much for make things more clear!

     

     

    Regards.