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Tim_Harber
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Apr 20, 2020

Forcing data group to process matches in a specific order

Hi All,   I have a data group with the purpose of matching the incoming URI(data group key) and passing the traffic to a specific pool(data group value.) I have some URI's that overlap and am won...
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Beaker
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Apr 20, 2020

Internal data groups are store in alphabetical order. But you can change your match to use stats_with which will then do longest match against uris. So it will match /thing1/thing2 over /thing1/ if it is defined

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Tim_Harber
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Apr 22, 2020

Thanks. This appears to be the direction I am having to go. I think I am going to try to do an exact "equals" match, and if that fails do the "startswith" as you recommended.