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John_Ogle_45372
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Mar 18, 2010

host field rewrite help needed

I have just tried using this iRule but it is not rewriting the host field in the GET requests as expected. I did a tcpdump on the pool side to verify. I need to have the host field appeneded to includ...
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L4L7_53191
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Mar 19, 2010
This looks OK to me, and I just ran a quick test with some logging added: 

 
  when HTTP_REQUEST { 
 log local0. "Host is: [HTTP::host]"  
 if { [HTTP::host] equals"xyz.company.com"} { 
 HTTP::header replace Host "xyz.company.com:83" 
 log local0. "New host header is: [HTTP::header Host]" 
 } 
 }

...Which produces in the logs.

Mar 1 16:39:26 local/tmm info tmm[3994]: Rule dc-generic : Host is: xyz.company.com

Mar 1 16:39:26 local/tmm info tmm[3994]: Rule dc-generic : New host header is: xyz.company.com:83

-Matt