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Stacy_Lanier_53's avatar
Stacy_Lanier_53
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Jul 28, 2008

301 Redirect

I am trying to throw a URL redirect for a specific UserAgents in a file when a specific URL is entered by the user.

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { ([matchclass [HTTP::header value User-Agent] equals $::user_agents]) and \

 

[HTTP::uri] equals "http://internalURL/www.craigslist.org"}

 

HTTP::respond 301 Location "http://www.craigslist.org[HTTP::uri]"

 

}

 

 

 

Can anyone see what I am doing wrong?

 

 

Thanks

 

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6 Replies

  • Nicolas_Menant's avatar
    Nicolas_Menant
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    Jul 28, 2008
    Hi,

    You forgot a brace, You may need to be careful about uppercase and lower case.

    So for example it may be best to do: 

      
  when HTTP_REQUEST {  
    if { ([matchclass [string tolower [[HTTP::header value User-Agent]] equals $::user_agents]) and ([string tolower[HTTP::uri]] equals "http://internalurl/www.craigslist.org")} {  
        HTTP::respond 301 Location "http://www.craigslist.org[HTTP::uri]"  
  }

    You need then to have only lower case character in your user-agent class
  • Stacy_Lanier_53's avatar
    Stacy_Lanier_53
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    Jul 28, 2008
    I am getting the following error now if you might know what's wrong.

     

     

    line 1: [parse error: missing close-brace] [{

     

    line 2: [command is not valid in the current scope] [if { ([matchclass [string tolower [[HTTP::header value User-Agent]] equals $::user_agents]) and ([string tolower[HTTP::uri]] equals "http://internalurl/www.craigslist.org")} {
  • Nicolas_Menant's avatar
    Nicolas_Menant
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    Jul 28, 2008
    My Mistake it misses a closing brace

     

     

      
    when HTTP_REQUEST {    
      if { ([matchclass [string tolower [HTTP::header value User-Agent]] equals $::user_agents]) and ([string tolower[HTTP::uri]] equals "http://internalurl/www.craigslist.org")} {    
         log local0. "Match done"   
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "http://www.craigslist.org[HTTP::uri]"    
    }  
  }

     

     

    Update: one bracket was incorrect in your code i missed it
  • Stacy_Lanier_53's avatar
    Stacy_Lanier_53
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    Jul 28, 2008
    I appreciate your help and got one more error

     

    line 2: [parse error: PARSE quoteExtra 199 {extra characters after close-quote}] [{ ([matchclass [string tolower [[HTTP::header value User-Agent]] equals $::user_agents]) and ([string tolower[HTTP::uri]] equals "http://internalurl/www.craigslist.org")}]
  • Nicolas_Menant's avatar
    Nicolas_Menant
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    Jul 28, 2008
    Hi,

    You should try the iRule editor it would save a lot of syntax issue.

    Here is one you should be able to copy/paste 

     
 when HTTP_REQUEST { 
 if { ([matchclass [string tolower [HTTP::header "User-Agent"]] equals $::user_agents]) and ([string tolower [HTTP::uri]] equals "http://internalurl/www.craigslist.org")} { 
          log local0. "Match done" 
          HTTP::respond 301 Location "http://www.craigslist.org[HTTP::uri]" 
     } 
 }