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Luc_Grisez
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Aug 16, 2017

Hide/change Incoming port on Virtual Server

Hello,   We have backend applications A and B, listening on port 8443. F5 loadbalances this, listening to standard port 443 and redirects the client requests to port 8443 on the applications. The ...
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Luc_Grisez
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Aug 24, 2017

Hello,

 

Thx for the replies.

 

We finally intercepted the HTTP replies coming from the backend server going back to the clients with the 302 redirects in it. Some were in the headers others in a HTTP post.

 

when HTTP_RESPONSE { Rewrite the Location header for redirects if { ( [HTTP::header exists Location] ) and ( [HTTP::header Location] contains ":8443/" ) } { set new_uri [string map {:8443/ /} [HTTP::header "Location"]] HTTP::header replace Location $new_uri } }

 

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when HTTP_RESPONSE { Rewrite the Location header for redirects if { ( [HTTP::header exists Location] ) and ( [HTTP::header Location] contains ":8443/" ) } { set new_uri [string map {:8443/ /} [HTTP::header "Location"]] HTTP::header replace Location $new_uri } }