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Mehul_Gandhi_29
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Jan 23, 2017

irule for URL whitelisting based on File content

Hello All,   I am new to F5 and configuring a HTTP Forward Proxy. I would like to create an irule for URL whitelisting based on the content of a file. The file will contain the URL's which will be...
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Leonardo_Souza
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Jan 23, 2017

I guess the easy way will be just use a datagroup, with the list of URLs. See this link about querying the datagroup:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/irules.class.ashx

 

There is also an option to create a datagroup from a file, but I have never used.

 

Another option is iFile, but have only see this been implemented to respond to HTTP requests. So, not sure how easy is to use the content after load the iFile. See this link about iFile:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/irules.ifile.ashx