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OMA67
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Sep 28, 2023
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F5 ADC - url rewrite redirect with parsing

F5 ADC - url rewrite redirect with parsing

Hello,

I would like to rewrite/redirect a url with parsing a part of old url into the new one

Vocabulary : The Siret number is used to identify geographical location your company and each establishment that makes it up.

Exemple 1 :

From
https://mywebsite.com/oldpath/some-text-with-hypen-siretnumber-uniqueid
To
https://mywebsite.com/newpath/subpath/uniqueid

Exemple 2 :

From
https://mywebsite.com/oldpath/some-text-with-more-hypen-siretnumber-uniqueid
To
https://mywebsite.com/newpath/subpath/uniqueid


So far I tried regex to parse the digits after the last hyphen with no success, I surely miss something, or doing something wrong, here what I put in F5 ADC :

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {
        if {[string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/oldpath/"}{
        scan [URI::basename [HTTP::uri]] {%[\-([^-][0-9]*)$]%d} num
                HTTP::redirect "https://[HTTP::host]/newpath/subpath/${num}"
                }
}

 

Thank you for any help.

Have a nice day.

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  • lnxgeek's avatar
    lnxgeek
    Sep 28, 2023

    Not tested:

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    # Capture the URI from the HTTP request
    set uri [HTTP::uri]
    
    # Define the pattern to extract "uniqueid" using Regular Expression
    # The pattern now captures only numerical characters after the last hypen ("-")
    set pattern {.*-(\d+)$}
    
    # Apply the regular expression to capture "uniqueid"
    if {[regexp $pattern $uri ignore uniqueid]} {
        
        # Create the new URI by appending the captured "uniqueid"
        set new_uri "/newpath/subpath/$uniqueid"
        
        # Perform HTTP redirect to the new URI
        HTTP::redirect "https://mywebsite.com$new_uri"
    }
}

9 Replies

  • lnxgeek's avatar
    lnxgeek
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    Sep 28, 2023

    Can you give some examples of what the strings/numbers look like?

    • OMA67's avatar
      OMA67
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      Sep 28, 2023

      Here an example : /First_name-Family_name-jobètype-41383279100011-1

      And I have to keep the last number in this example 1

  • Paulius's avatar
    Paulius
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    Sep 28, 2023

    OMA67 Will the uniqueid always be at the end of the path, is it always the same length, and is it always certain characters?

    • OMA67's avatar
      OMA67
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      Sep 28, 2023

      Yes uniqueid wich is only digits and it is an incrementation number from 1 to infinite, it is not always the same lenght

  • lnxgeek's avatar
    lnxgeek
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    Sep 28, 2023

    Not tested:

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    # Capture the URI from the HTTP request
    set uri [HTTP::uri]
    
    # Define the pattern to extract "uniqueid" using Regular Expression
    # The pattern now captures only numerical characters after the last hypen ("-")
    set pattern {.*-(\d+)$}
    
    # Apply the regular expression to capture "uniqueid"
    if {[regexp $pattern $uri ignore uniqueid]} {
        
        # Create the new URI by appending the captured "uniqueid"
        set new_uri "/newpath/subpath/$uniqueid"
        
        # Perform HTTP redirect to the new URI
        HTTP::redirect "https://mywebsite.com$new_uri"
    }
}