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UniFirst1_22521
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Feb 21, 2019

301 redirect replacing www if present

Trying to create an iRule that will redirect HTTP to HTTPS and remove example incoming would be http://www.unifirst.ca and it would be redirected to https://unifirst.ca with a 301 response not a 302.

I have the following iRule written

when HTTP_REQUEST { if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] starts_with "; } then { HTTP::respond 301 "Location" "https://[findstr [string tolower [HTTP::host]] "; 4][HTTP::uri]" } else { HTTP::respond 301 "Location" "https://[HTTP::host]][HTTP::uri]" } }

but it gives me the following error in the browser when trying http://unifirst.ca 

This page isn’t working unifirst.ca sent an invalid response.
ERR_INVALID_REDIRECT

I have tried with different browsers and get same results.

Any ideas?

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  • PeteWhite's avatar
    PeteWhite
    Icon for Employee rankEmployee
    Feb 21, 2019

    Try this:

    when HTTP_REQUEST { 
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] starts_with "www." } { 
        set host [ string map {'www.' ''} [HTTP::host] ]
        HTTP::redirect "https://$host[HTTP::uri]"
    } else { 
        HTTP::redirect "https://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]" 
    }
}
  • wlopez's avatar
    wlopez
    Icon for Cirrocumulus rankCirrocumulus
    Feb 21, 2019

    What are the different hostnames/URLs you're planning to redirect from http to https on the http virtual server?

    If you're only managing a single domain with two URL variants (Ex. , unifirst.ca) the simplest way would be to redirect all http requests to the desired hostname:

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://unifirst.ca[HTTP::uri]"
}