Big Redirects List

Hoolio's right on on this one.

The findclass command lets you specify a seperator and will return the resultant second half of the string in the class.

For instance, the class in question:

class myRedirects {
  "site1 site1a"
  "site2 site1a"
  "site3 site1a"
  "site4 site2a"
  "site5 site2b"
  "site6 site3b\widget.htm"
  "site7 site2b\widget.asp"
}

combined with a findclass statement such as:

[findclass [HTTP::host] $::myRedirects " "]

Would return site1a or site2a, etc. depending on which hostname was used. This is, of course, assuming that "site1" is the entire hostname of the site. If you're trying to use just the first portion, the canonical name for instance, then you'd want to make use of the getfield command, as well.

That would look something like this:

[findclass [getfield [HTTP::host] "." 1] $::myRedirects " "]   

To put that into the context of your rule, it'd look like:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  set newDom [findclass [getfield [HTTP::host] "." 1] $::myRedirects " "]
  if { [string length $newDom] >= 1 } {
    HTTP::redirect $newDom
  } else {
    HTTP::redirect "http://othersite.com/search.asp"
  }
}

Hopefully that at least gets you pointed in the right direction.

-Colin