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Severity: 3-Major ... Symptoms ... HREF url in <extension> tag of JNLP is not rewritten with f5-w-hexencoded_backend_host, so URL content cannot be accessible by JRE. ... Impact ... Java applets may not work. ... Conditions ... Backend JNLP with href=url in <extension> tag. ... Workaround ... There is a common approach to patch not rewritten HREF using the iRule. ... Here is an example: when HTTP_REQUEST { if { [HTTP::uri] ends_with "end_of_interesting_url" } { set match 1 } } when REWRITE_REQUEST_DONE { if { [info exists match] } { REWRITE::post_process 1 } } when REWRITE_RESPONSE_DONE { if { [info exists match] } { unset match set sid [ACCESS::session sid] set from {org_url} set to {https://APM+VS/f5-w-hexencoded_backend_host/org_url_path} set pos [string first $from [REWRITE::payload]] if { $pos > 0 } { log local0. ... "Patching unpatched uri to $to" set len [string length $from] REWRITE::payload replace $pos $len $to } } }
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