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Eric_27678
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Oct 09, 2013

HTTP Pool Selection based on URI

I am trying to create a irule where I select a pool based on the uri the client is pointing to. However when the request gets sent to the server, I don't want to uri to forward through. An example is uri's such as

 

www.domain.com/SiteA www.domain.com/SiteB www.domain.com/SiteC

 

If a client goes to www.domain.com/SiteB, I want to select pool B, but when the request gets sent to the pool member, I want it to pull up the root directory "/".

 

The reason behind this is my company has several facilities with camera systems. I would like to use the F5 as a front end with a single URL and distiguish the site by the uri. However the camera systems themselves are not very intelligent can only start requests by going to their root directory. Is it possibly to do this uri manipulation with an iRule?

 

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  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
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    Oct 09, 2013

    Please try this:

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    switch [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] {
        "/sitea" {
            pool site_a_pool
            HTTP::uri "/"
        }
        "/siteb" {
            pool site_b_pool
            HTTP::uri "/"
        }
        "/sitec" {
            pool site_c_pool
            HTTP::uri "/"
        }
    }
}

    This example only accounts for a static (base) URI. Will the request URI ever go beyond this base URI (ex. /SiteA/foo) where you might need to simply replace "/SiteA" and just send "/foo"?