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Apr 06, 2012

Three Questions on STREAM iRule

I have a web site that is sending a couple different absolute URLs that required me setting up a couple of STREAM::expression irules. Each rule worked fine when running under 9.4.3 but when we upgraded to 10.2.3, the second of the two rules no longer worked. I consolidated the rule into 1, which looks like the irule below:


when RULE_INIT {
    set ::crfind "http://host.domain.tld:8443/"
    set ::cr2find "http://host.domain.tld:8080/"
    set ::crreplace "https://host.domain.tld/"
}
when HTTP_REQUEST {
  STREAM::disable
}
when HTTP_RESPONSE {
  if {[HTTP::header value Content-Type] contains "text"} {
    STREAM::expression "@$::crfind@$::crreplace@"
    STREAM::enable
 }  elseif {[HTTP::header value Content-Type] contains "text"} {
      STREAM::expression "@$::cr2find@$::crreplace@"
      STREAM::enable
    } else {
        STREAM::disable
      }
}
when STREAM_MATCHED {
  log local0. "Matched [STREAM::match]"
}

My first question is: Why does STREAM::match only log the match for value $::cr2find even though the STREAM::expression for $::crfind works fine?

My second question is: Why doesn't the second STREAM::expression work for $::cr2find even though STREAM::match is matching it?

My last question is: What is the correct way for me to re-initialize variable values if I make a change to that value? For example, if I change the value of $::crfind from "http://host.domain:tld:8443/" to "https://host.domain.tld:8443/", nothing matches unless I change the name of the variable itself.
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  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
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    Apr 06, 2012
    it matches for ::crfind in my testing.

    anyway, why do you use same if condition ([HTTP::header value Content-Type] contains "text") twice??

    and have you seen this article?

    LTM stream profile: Multiple replacements & regular expressions by Deb

    https://devcentral.f5.com/Tutorials/TechTips/tabid/63/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/101/LTM-stream-profile-Multiple-replacements-regular-expressions.aspx 

    [root@ve1023:Active] config  b virtual bar list
virtual bar {
   snat automap
   pool foo
   destination 172.28.19.79:80
   ip protocol 6
   rules myrule
   profiles {
      http {}
      stream {}
      tcp {}
   }
}
[root@ve1023:Active] config  b pool foo list
pool foo {
   members 200.200.200.101:80 {}
}
[root@ve1023:Active] config  b rule myrule list
rule myrule {
   when RULE_INIT {
   set ::crfind "http://host.domain.tld:8443/"
   set ::cr2find "http://host.domain.tld:8080/"
   set ::crreplace "https://host.domain.tld/"
}
when HTTP_REQUEST {
   STREAM::disable
}
when HTTP_RESPONSE {
   if {[HTTP::header value Content-Type] contains "text"} {
      STREAM::expression "@$::crfind@$::crreplace@"
      STREAM::enable
   } elseif {[HTTP::header value Content-Type] contains "text"} {
      STREAM::expression "@$::cr2find@$::crreplace@"
      STREAM::enable
   } else {
      STREAM::disable
   }
}
when STREAM_MATCHED {
   log local0. "Matched [STREAM::match]"
}
}

 original response (not passing bigip)

[root@ve1023:Active] config  curl -i http://200.200.200.101/test.html
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:05:41 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
Last-Modified: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:02:30 GMT
ETag: "418447-a9-f207ed80"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 169
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8




http://www.google.com/
http://host.domain.tld:8443/something
http://host.domain.tld:8080/somethingelse
http://www.yahoo.com/



 response when passing bigip

[root@centos251 ~] curl -i http://172.28.19.79/test.html
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:12:57 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
Last-Modified: Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:02:30 GMT
ETag: "418447-a9-f207ed80"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Transfer-Encoding: chunked




http://www.google.com/
https://host.domain.tld/something
http://host.domain.tld:8080/somethingelse
http://www.yahoo.com/



 bigip

[root@ve1023:Active] config  cat /var/log/ltm
Apr  6 08:12:27 local/tmm info tmm[4797]: Rule myrule : Matched http://host.domain.tld:8443/