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kumar_gaurav_32
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May 19, 2017

ICAP SERVER CONCEPT

Hello everyone greeting of day....

 

I am trying to understand the concept of ICAP server in F5 BIG IP.Request you to please give me clarity on this...

 

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  • Anesh's avatar
    Anesh
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    If you are looking of a use case of integrating an F5 ASM with an Anti-virus server via ICAP protocol check this discussion

     

  • Hi,

     

    Think about one HTTP Request traveling from a web browser to a BIG-IP Virtual Server. And then you want to implement malware scanning in a transparent way in your BIG-IP Full Proxy. So the BIG-IP system are going to be the ICAP client and it will send the HTTP request to a server for our malware scanning purpose.

     

    That server will scan the HTTP Request and then will send it again to the BIG-IP system if everything it's OK and pass the scan. The server that scan and approves the content is called ICAP Server.

     

    I hope it helps.