dash in URI breaking pool selection?

After playing around with this some more and adjusting some of the logging I started to notice the there was a second GET request. The second request was changing the dash from the original uri to %2d. This in turn was messing up the uri starts_with. I tried adding a check for %2d, but, more than likely was doing something wrong as it still wouldn't send the request to correct pool. Since I was in a bit of a time crunch, I eventually Swallowed my pride and called F5 support and the gentleman who was helping had me do some specific tcp dumps where he noticed that the second request was in fact an IIS 6.0 generated 301 redirect that was appending a / to the end of the uri, but was also at the same time changing the - to a %2d. Got my windows admin on the line and he was able to come up with an asapi re-write to do a cleaner redirect, which maintained the -. Once that was done, the irules worked perfectly.

 

 

Aaron - thank you for the help. The logging got me headed in the right direction to notice the %2d