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frisco76_104868
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Oct 29, 2009

hostname rewrite

Hi all, I want to throw a message out on the forum..this might not require an iRule (if we can do it without an iRule, that would be preferred method). I need to be able to rewrite the h...
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hoolio
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Oct 29, 2009
There isn't a host header in responses. The app would potentially include absolute references to the hostname in HTTP headers and the payload.

 

 

If the ProxyPass iRule is overkill for your scenario, you might be able to take a stripped down version and adapt it for your requirements. This Codeshare example is for rewriting the URI, but you could adapt it for external/internal hostnames in your scenario.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/Uri_Version_Mapping.html

 

 

Here is a version that assumes the application does not include absolute references to the "internal" hostname in response content:

 

 

iRule to change host headers

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&forumid=5&tpage=1&view=topic&postid=19917

 

 

Aaron