I am trying to get an iPhone to connect to our iNotes server and neither are playing nice. I think I can fool it by using the F5. My issue is that the iNotes server will not accept an IP address as a valid host. I have been trying to get the F5 to rewrite the URL, but am having issues iPhone ----http://10.10.2.20 -->F5 ---http://mail.domain.com--->inotes server What I have so far: when HTTP_REQUEST { Check if requested host is an IP address if {[HTTP::host] eq "10.10.2.20"}{ Rewrite HOST [HTTP::host] "mail.domain.com" } pool Test_iNotes_pool } when HTTP_RESPONSE { Check if response is a name if {[HTTP::host] eq "mail.domain.com"}{ Rewrite return HOST [HTTP::host] "10.10.2.20" } } edited, because I forgot to anonymize

Hi tpearson, You can use HTTP::header replace Host "newhost.example.com" to replace the existing Host header: when HTTP_REQUEST { Check if host is an IP address if {[HTTP::host] eq "10.198.239.248"}{ Replace host header HTTP::header replace Host "newhost.example.com" } } There isn't a host header in responses, so you shouldn't need to modify the response headers or content. Aaron

thanks, That got me one step farther, the notes server sends me a 302 and redirects me to itself, how do I catch that and rewrite that too?

Is 'itself' an IP address or a hostname? Can you post an anonymized example? Thanks, Aaron

Using your example hoolio, works until the inotes server sends me a 302 to mail.domain.com. I am using snats on this since, both the client and the mail server are on the local subnet (not sure it that causes any issues) Client --http:// --->F5 ---http://mail.domain.com ---> mail server This part works, I get the login page, and can even authenticate with it, then after authentication, the mail server sends a 302 to http://mail.domain.com/someURIinfo. It is that 302 response I need to change from mail.domain.com to an Hope that helps some

Something like this maybe? when HTTP_REQUEST { Set a flag to rewrite host in redirect responses set check_response 0 Check if host is an IP address if {[HTTP::host] eq "10.198.239.248"}{ Replace host header HTTP::header replace Host "newhost.example.com" Set a flag to rewrite host in redirect responses set check_response 1 } } when HTTP_RESPONSE { if {$check_response and [HTTP::is_redirect]}{ Rewrite the Location header to an IP HTTP::header replace Location [string map {newhost.example.com 10.198.239.248} [HTTP::header value Location]] } } If you have multiple IP addresses you'd potentially want to check for let me know. This option should work for a single IP. Aaron

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tim_pearson_938

Nimbostratus

Oct 10, 2008

fooling a client and the server

I am trying to get an iPhone to connect to our iNotes server and neither are playing nice. I think I can fool it by using the F5. My issue is that the iNotes server will not accept an IP address as a valid host. I have been trying to get the F5 to rewrite the URL, but am having issues

iPhone ----http://10.10.2.20 -->F5 ---http://mail.domain.com--->inotes server

What I have so far:

when HTTP_REQUEST {   
         Check if requested host is an IP address   
      if {[HTTP::host] eq "10.10.2.20"}{   
            Rewrite HOST   
         [HTTP::host] "mail.domain.com"   
      }   
      pool Test_iNotes_pool  
   }  
  when HTTP_RESPONSE {   
       Check if response is a name   
      if {[HTTP::host] eq "mail.domain.com"}{   
            Rewrite return HOST   
         [HTTP::host] "10.10.2.20"   
      }   
  }

edited, because I forgot to anonymize