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kawiman_43144
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Jul 25, 2012

Respond to Get request on it's own?

I am evaluating load balancers and one "nice to have" would be to have the load balancer itself respond to an http get request with a specified string to any client that sends the get. Is this possibl...
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Aug 01, 2012
As Hamish said this is definitely possible. Here's a slightly simpler example that sends some HTML in an HTTP 200 response for requests to /respond.html:

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.http__respond.ashx 


when HTTP_REQUEST {

if {[HTTP::path] eq "/respond.html" {
HTTP::respond 200 content {


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}
}
}

Aaron