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Pav_70755
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Oct 26, 2010

HTTP Re-Direct and keep original URL in address bar

I have the following simple re-direct in place } elseif { [HTTP::host] == "www.domain.com }{ HTTP::redirect "http://www.abc.com/subject" I basically want the address bar to keep ...
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hoolio
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Oct 26, 2010
Hi Pav,

 

 

If you want to preserve the existing domain in the URI, you'd need to rewrite the host and/or URI to the new value. This is instead of the HTTP redirect which causes the browser to update the address bar.

 

 

The proxypass iRule performs this type of functionality:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/proxypass

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/proxypassv10

 

 

If you don't need all of that functionality, you can use HTTP::header replace Host "newhost" and HTTP::uri "/newuri" to rewrite the host and URI.

 

 

Aaron