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raytoles_75680
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Dec 03, 2009

Header Insert of "http" or "https"

We're going to implement a virtual server to handle HTTP and HTTPS requests. The developers need us to insert the protocol into the header. We're still new to irules and I constantly fear performanc...
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hoolio
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Dec 07, 2009
It would be more efficient to only check for the Location header on redirects. Also, if you want to preserve the URI in the redirect, you should use string map: 

 
 when HTTP_RESPONSE { 
    if { [HTTP::is_redirect] and [HTTP::header Location] starts_with "http://newsite.apa.org:443"} { 
       log local0. "Location [HTTP::header Location]" 
       HTTP::header replace Location "[string map "http://newsite.apa.org:443 http://newsite.apa.org" [HTTP::header Location]]" 
    } 
 }

Aaron