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Joe_Pipitone
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Sep 09, 2013

Blocking file type by referrer - redirecting afterwards

I found a great script on devcentral that allows us to prevent people from obtaining PDF's from our sites unless they are referred by one of our domains. The script integrated nicely with some custom...
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hoolio
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Sep 09, 2013

Hi Joe,

You should be able to escape the []'s in the variable and then use subst to substitute the command with the command value.

Also, change all the variables you set in RULE_INIT to static:: to preserve CMP compatibility

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/subst.htm https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.CMPCompatibility.ashx

 

when RULE_INIT {
   ...
   set static::error_url {http://[HTTP::host]/404.aspx}
   ...
}
when HTTP_REQUEST {
   ...
   HTTP::respond 302 "Location" [subst $static::error_url] Cache-Control No-Cache Pragma No-Cache
   ...
}

 

Aaron