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nrelihan_68143
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusChange HTTP redirect header question
Hey,
I'm currently doing a uri redirect which redirects traffic, so that traffic from one region will be redirected to their particular page: eg.
switch [whereis [IP::client_addr] country] {
"IE" {
if {$hostname eq "www.example.com" }
{ HTTP::redirect http://www.example.com/ireland
I would like to change the redirect header from 302 to a 301 redirect. The reason being is so that crawlers can be redirected also without affecting my google page rank. currently I have an exception in the irule so that crawlers are not redirected.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Neil
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Michael_YatesHi nrelihan,
It is a simple change using HTTP::respond (http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.HTTP__respond.ashx) instead of HTTP::redirect.
When HTTP::respond you get to specify the HTTP::status code that is returned.
Hope this helps.
nrelihan_68143Hey Michael,
Yes that makes sense, I remember I was using HTTP::respond 302 location before, and someone said I could just use HTTP::redirect instead. So I will just edit my code like so:
switch [whereis [IP::client_addr] country] {
"IE" {
if {$hostname eq "www.example.com" }
{ HTTP::respond 301 location "http://www.example.com/ireland"
Or can I leave out the quotes around http://www.example.com/ireland"?
Cheers.
