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SteveEason_3059
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Feb 01, 2019

Forwarding to external URL while keeping variables/folders

So we have a situation where our marketing team needs to create various tracking items for our websites and they don't have the know how or access needed to do this on our F5. In the past we've used...
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Stephane_Viau
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Feb 04, 2019

would get redirected to http://hubspotcustomer.a4029.hubspot.com.

 

A user coming in with shorturl.com would make a request to the Virtual Server (VIP), hit the iRule, get redirected to . The user would make a second request to the Virtual Server, this time for , hit the iRule again and get redirected to hubspotcustomer.a4029.hubspot.com. Then the user would make a third request going to hubspotcustomer.a4029.hubspot.com.

 

A user coming in with would make a request to the Virtual Server, hit the iRule, get redirected to hubspotcustomer.a4029.hubspot.com. The user would make a second request to hubspotcustomer.a4029.hubspot.com.

 

This happens transparently for the users by the way, as browsers follow redirections automatically.