Help! how to Change request URL without Redirect

You can modify the URI with the HTTP::uri command. This should be pretty close to what you want.

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/abc" } {
    HTTP::uri [string map -nocase {"/abc" "/123/bac"} [HTTP::uri]]
  }
}

What this does is for all URI's that start with "/abc", it will replace the "/abc" with the string "/123/bac"

http://foo.com/abc -> http://foo.com/123/bac

http://foo.com/abc/file.ext -> http://foo.com/123/bac/file.gif

One gotcha to watch out for is that the string map command will replace all occurances of the first string with the second. So this would also happen which may or may not cause you issues.

http://foo.com/zzz/abc.ext -> http://foo.com/zzz/123/bac.gif

If that is an issue, then you may want to do something like this using findstr to strip out the initial characters in the URI.

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/abc" } {
    HTTP::uri "/123/bac[findstr [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] "/abc" 4]"
  }
}

This one can have some gotchas as well...

http://foo.com/abc.gif -> http://foo.com/123/bac.gif

Only you know your web application so you'll have to account for all these subtleties and work around them. But for your initial question, at least one of these should work for you.

-Joe

Thanks a lot!

 

 

It's very usefull.

Can you modify the port (without Redirect) from say 8080 to 80 if so how

Hi Jon,

 

 

Do you mean the TCP port of the destination? If so, LTM will do destination port translation from the client's destination port to the selected pool member's port as long as port translation is enabled on the VIP. If you mean rewriting the TCP port in the Host header, you can use the HTTP::host command to do this:

 

 

HTTP::header replace Host [string map {:8080 :80} [HTTP::host]]

 

 

Aaron