Can you hide a URI change from client

What I'm looking for is the ability to change the URI on the Response, however, HTTP::uri only works on HTTP_REQUEST not for HTTP_RESPONSE

 

 

 

If you are re-writing the URI inbound, and wish to hide the change from the client, no changes to the HTTP response should be necessary.

 

 

If instead you want to re-write all the links on the page in HTTP_RESPONSE, exposing the new hostname and URI to the client on subsequent requests, you can use regsub & HTTP::payload replace against the response. (See the 2nd example on the HTTP::payload wiki page here: Click here)

 

 

HTH

 

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If you are using 9.2 or later version, the use of HTTP::payload should be depricated in favor of the stream profile which is more powerful and much more efficient. Read all about it here Click here

Support recently informed me of a known issue with the stream profile: The stream profile apparently does not update the Content-Length to the new size of the resulting content.

 

 

Until that's corrected, I've been avoiding the stream profile for replacements where the content length will change.

 

 

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I don't believe uczekajt is looking for content re-writing, just URI re-writing from the client's perspective.

In which case you'd do something to the effect of:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/" } {
    HTTP::uri "/stuff"
  }
}
when HTTP_RESPONSE {
  if { [HTTP::header location] contains "/stuff" } {
    set newLoc [string map {/stuff /} [HTTP::header location] ]
    HTTP::header replace location "$newLoc"
  }
}

This would, of course, require re-writing each request and response.

Colin

sorry, I forgot there was a cross-post. Issue further discussed & resolved here:

 

 

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Also, apparently the workaround for the Content-Length update issue with the stream profile is to enable response chunking to rechunk in the http profile.

 

 

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