Forum Discussion
calling a command from a class
I'm building lots of variations on a theme for redirects, and would like to be able to use dynamic request variables to build redirect responses.
I was hoping to use command strings stored in a class to build the redirect location dynamically, to avoid coding a separate condition/action for each location pattern:
class HostRedirects {
www.domain.com 301 https://www.domain.com[HTTP::uri]
host.domain.com 302 http://host2.domain.com/index.html
another.domain.com 301 https://www.domain.com/another[HTTP::uri]
...
}
rule HostRedirects {
when HTTP_REQUEST {
set row [findclass [getfield [HTTP::host] ":" 1] $::HostRedirects]
if { not ($row eq "")}{
HTTP::respond [getfield $row " " 2] Location [getfield $row " " 3]
unset row
return
}
}
}but I can't seem to get the [HTTP::uri] command that is part of the class member to evaluate, so the redirect location comes back literally as "https://www.domain.com[HTTP::uri]", rather than "https://www.domain.com/my/favorite/website.html"
Any ideas?
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- (oops, had to clean that up a little.
should make more sense now...) - Try adding an eval line in your rule.
Like this:rule HostRedirects { when HTTP_REQUEST { set row [findclass [getfield [HTTP::host] ":" 1] $::HostRedirects] if { not ($row eq "")}{ set tmpRow [eval $row] HTTP::respond [getfield $tmpRow " " 2] Location [getfield $tmpRow " " 3] unset row unset tmpRow return } } }
That should get the HTTP::uri command to evaluate for you. You might also want to add some logging to see what each of your getfield commands are returning if you have further problems.
Colin - getfield commands are definitely returning what's expected, problem is just that it's not being interpreted.
When I use eval against any string that's not actually a command (the $row variable string retrieved by findclass), I get this runtime error:
May 18 23:01:57 tmm tmm[788]: 01220001:3: TCL error: invalid command name "" while executing "" ("eval" body line 1) invoked from within "eval $row"
I've been messing about with some other options, but no luck yet. The code works fine until I go to pull the redirect string out of the class. I'm wondering if the return from findclass is quoting the string such that evaluation is not taking place?
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