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Randy_Johnson_L
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Jul 13, 2017

F5 as 'reverse proxy' ?

We have a case where we have a number of 'internal' webservers in a pool, assigned to a Virtual Server. Inbound requests / responses work fine for this setup.

 

Now, we need these webservers to be able to make an outbound request for content residing in Azure, pull in the content / response and display it in an iFrame while honoring the '"X-Frame-Options" "SAMEORIGIN"' header, which we set with an iRule, as below.

 

when HTTP_RESPONSE { HTTP::header insert "X-Frame-Options" "SAMEORIGIN" }

 

Any thoughts as to the best way to accomplish this ?

 

Thanks !!

 

application delivery
LTM
security

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  • Jeff_Maddox_394's avatar
    Jeff_Maddox_394
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    Aug 04, 2017

    If the requirement is simply the ability for back end servers to make outbound requests, then a forwarding virtual server would be the solution. The servers could also point to a VS address on the F5 and the external servers could be pool members.