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Basil_Parsley_1's avatar
Basil_Parsley_1
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Dec 21, 2016

Append Forward Slash to base URL in browser - redirect using an irule

How could I set up a redirect as per https://webpage.com >> https://webpage.com/ For when a user does not put the forward slash in the browser .. and the server does not perform this function. I ...
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Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
Stanislas_Piro2
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Dec 21, 2016

Hi Basil,

Can you post the request when requesting https://webpage.com?

the request must be:

GET / HTTP/1.1 Host: webpage.com User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 Connection: close

If the browser does not set the 

/
, is there some string inserted between GET and HTTP?

How the F5 HTTP profile parse the request? does it raise an error? does it parse HTTP/1.1 as the HTTP::uri?