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C_Kim
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Jun 15, 2017

Some URI bypass iRule.

I have a simple iRule that checks the User-Agent string in the HTTP header and matches against a data group list. The purpose is to block web crawlers from crawling our websites. when HTTP_REQUEST...
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mike_246361
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Jun 15, 2017

You might want to take a look at this article:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/http-event-order-access-policy-manager

 

It says:

 

"For APM internal URIs, like /my.policy and /my.logout, the HTTP_REQUEST/HTTP_RESPONSE events don’t fire as you would expect beginning in v11.x. The traditional method to work around this (and other module complexities) is to use the vip targeting vip configuration"

 

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    C_Kim
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    Jun 16, 2017

    That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification!