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William_128276
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Aug 01, 2006

Can the F5 rewrite/append data to a URL

One of our customers has limited the length of URL's to 100 characters. Is there a mechanism on the F5 to append character strings to the URL.

 

 

Example:

 

http://abs.goodyear.com/AIT/InvCheck

 

 

 

http://abs.goodyear.com/sap/xi/adapter_plain?namespace=urn%3Agoodyear%2Ecom%3AAIT%3AInventoryCheck&interface=AITInventoryCheck_Abs&service=HTTP_AIT_InvChk&QOS=BE&sap-client=010&sap-language=EN

 

 

 

 

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  • JRahm's avatar
    JRahm
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    Aug 01, 2006
    I'm not sure I follow your example, but yes, this is doable:

    
when HTTP_REQUEST {
  HTTP::uri "[HTTP::uri]"
}

  • William_128276's avatar
    William_128276
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    Aug 01, 2006
    I didn't realize but they've changed the URI?

     

     

    /AIT/InvCheck has changed to sap/xi/

     

     

     

    http://abc.goodyear.com/AIT/InvCheck

     

     

    http://abc.goodyear.com/sap/xi/adapter_plain?namespace=urn%3Agoodyear%2Ecom%3AAIT%3AInventoryCheck&interface=AITInventoryCheck_Abs&service=HTTP_AIT_InvChk&QOS=BE&sap-client=010&sap-language=EN

     

     

     

    Your suggesting:

     

     

    when HTTP_REQUEST {

     

    [HTTP::url] == [HTTP::uri] >"

     

    }

     

     

    How do I handle the /AIT/InvCheck without a redirect?
  • JRahm's avatar
    JRahm
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    Aug 02, 2006
    The URI can be completely rewritten, it just depends on your requirements. Perhaps if you could spell out what the client will be submitting, including dynamic URI's generated by your application, and what the application itself needs to receive to supply valid content, we'll be able to help you out.