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davidq_20688
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Jun 06, 2011

HTTP Profile for re-direct

Hi All,     The company I work for has requested we set up a virtual server, which will effectively redirect all incoming HTTP requests.       We have set up a http profile to do this jo...
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hooleylist
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Jun 09, 2011
What you're seeing is expected browser behavior.

 

 

If you specify a local URI for a redirect, the browser will automatically append that redirect location to the current URL. If you want the client to make a request with the same protocol (http or https) to the same FQDN but with a new path of /fallback.html, you should specify the fallback host as /fallback.html. This doesn't follow the exact requirements of RFC2616 but it works.

 

 

If you want to replace the host in the redirect, you will need to specify a full URL like http://www.example.com/fallback.html.

 

 

Aaron