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kiamars_51328
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May 18, 2009

How can I get rid of the port on redirects.

Hi, I can redirect to new port, but how can i elemenated the port, I don't want to see the port that I am redirecting.     thx for your time.    
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hoolio
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May 19, 2009
What port is the virtual server defined on? What port are the pool members defined on? Do the web servers require that the Host header value contain the port number (ie, is the virtual host definition expecting the port to be explicitly listed)?

LTM will translate the port as long as you leave port translation enabled on the virtual server. If you need to, you can rewrite the host header using HTTP::header replace Host "newhost.example.com". Here is an example: 

 
 when HTTP_REQUEST { 
  
     Check if host header does not have port already 
    if {[string length [getfield [HTTP::host] ":" 2]] <= 0}{ 
  
        Append the port to the host header value 
       HTTP::header replace Host "[HTTP::host]:300" 
    } 
 }

If the application includes the port in redirects, you can remove it using the Codeshare example cmbhatt and I linked to above.

Aaron