How to mask URL

The following should work for you

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/join/events" } {

 

HTTP::uri "/join"

 

}

 

}

Unfortunately that did not work as I receive the following 404 error:

 

 

HTTP Status 404 - /join/events/

 

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 

type Status report

 

message /join/events/

 

description The requested resource (/join/events/) is not available.

 

 

That's because the iRule is comparing the string "/join/events" and you passed in "/join/events/".

Something like this should work

when HTTP_REQUEST { 
  if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/join/events/" } { 
    HTTP::uri "/join" 
  } 
 }

But, that would ONLY match a url of "/join/events/". "/join/events", "/Join/Events/", etc would not match.

You could also use a "starts_with" to compare like this

when HTTP_REQUEST { 
  if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/join/events" } { 
    HTTP::uri "/join" 
  } 
 }

That would match "/join/events" and "/join/events/" but it would also match on "/join/eventsFOOBAR" or anything else after events in the URI.

If you want to have more options in your comparisons, I'd use a switch statement with the "string tolower" on the URI.

when HTTP_REQUEST {
  switch -glob [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] {
    "/join/events" -
    "/join/events/" {
      HTTP::uri "/join"
    }
  }
}

Lots of options, it really depends on your app logic how complex you want to go with the comparison.

-Joe

Many thanks Joe!

 

 

The switch statement with the "string tolower" did it. And now I know that much more about iRules. :)

 

 

Thanks,

 

George

The customer has now changed the requirements.

 

 

1) http://www.abc.com/join

 

2) http://www.abc.com/join/events

 

 

They would like the 2nd one to stay http://www.abc.com/join/events in the URL bar when the user types it but redirect behind the scenes to a different server entirely: http://www.xyz.com/join

 

 

What is the proper command string to make that work unbenownst to the end user?