HTTP Re-Direct uri replace?

A couple things:

 

 

1. Are you trying to replace the existing iRule with the new requirements or merge them together? I see a conflict with the first else if.

 

2. Put "STAGE_www.new.com-80" in as the default pool and get rid of the else statement as it is unnecessary.

 

3. You are going to have to use string manipulation to get this to work right. I listed the process below(this is not code):

 

 

-Find out if it matches the condition: [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/win"

 

-Modify the original uri: A new variable with a substr of [HTTP::uir] to get rid of the "/win"

 

-Redirect to the new URL: HTTP::redirect [HTTP::host]+"/News-Advice"+$new_var

Hi Brian,

I forgot to remove the first line but i think the rule needs to be modified to have some paramaters set that replace something from an existing url or use a parameter thats set to insert into the re-directed url

when HTTP_REQUEST {
set extracta [URI::query [HTTP::query] "New-Advice" ] 
          if { [HTTP::uri] ends_with "/win"  } {
          HTTP::redirect "http://www.new.com/$extracta"
          }}
              elseif { [HTTP::uri] ends_with "/talk"  } {
                  HTTP::redirect "http://www.news.comk/Marketing-Services/"  
   }
              elseif { [HTTP::uri] ends_with "/find"  } {
                  HTTP::redirect "http://www.news.comk/Business-Data/"   
           }  else {
                 pool STAGE_www.news.com-80 
   }  
}

Would something like that work for the first line?

I think you would do the following:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/win"  } {
        set extracta [substr [HTTP::uri] "/win" ""]
        HTTP::redirect "http://www.new.com/New-Advice$extracta"
    }
    elseif { [HTTP::uri] ends_with "/talk"  } {
        HTTP::redirect "http://www.news.comk/Marketing-Services/"  
    }
    elseif { [HTTP::uri] ends_with "/find"  } {
        HTTP::redirect "http://www.news.comk/Business-Data/"   
    }
    else {
         pool STAGE_www.news.com-80 
    }  
}

Thanks Brian I'm getting the following error with that rule:

line 3: [invalid integer] ["/win"]

I'm essentially needing the following url

www.news.com/win/News-Archive/Marketing-News/?storyId=84494

to be replaced with

www.news.com/News-Advice/News-Archive/Marketing-News/?storyId=84494

so "win" to be replaced with "New-Advice" in the uri and also some additional ones now

"talk" to be replaced with "Marketing-Services"

"find" to be replaced with "Business-Data"

Here is the rule modified slightly

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/win"  } {
        set wininsert [substr [HTTP::uri] "/win" ""]
        HTTP::redirect "http://www.new.com/New-Advice$wininsert"
}
elseif { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/talk"  } {
        set talkinsert [substr [HTTP::uri] "/talk" ""]
        HTTP::redirect "http://www.new.com/Marketing-Services$talkinsert"  
}
elseif { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/find"  } {
        set findinsert [substr [HTTP::uri] "/find" ""]
        HTTP::redirect "http://www.new.com/New-Advice$findinsert"   
}
else {
         pool STAGE_www.news.com-80
    }  
} 

Not sure why substr is not working...you could also try a string trimleft since you know exactly what the values are. Replace the substr lines with these:

set wininsert string trimleft [HTTP::uri] 4
set talkinsert string trimleft [HTTP::uri] 5
set findinsert string trimleft [HTTP::uri] 5

There are many other ways such as using regsub, string map or other string manipulation functions

Thanks Brian i'm getting the following error:

line 3: [wrong args] [set wininsert string trimleft [HTTP::uri] 4]

line 7: [wrong args] [set talkinsert string trimleft [HTTP::uri] 5]

line 11: [wrong args] [set findinsert string trimleft [HTTP::uri] 5]

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/win"  } {
        set wininsert string trimleft [HTTP::uri] 4
        HTTP::redirect "http://www.new.com/New-Advice$wininsert"
    }
    elseif { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/talk"  } {
        set talkinsert string trimleft [HTTP::uri] 5
        HTTP::redirect "http://www.new.com/New-Advice$talkinsert"  
    }
     elseif { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/find"  } {
        set findinsert string trimleft [HTTP::uri] 5
        HTTP::redirect "http://www.new.com/New-Advice$findinsert"   
    }
    else {
         pool STAGE_www.new.com-80 
    }  
}
 

You probably have to enclose the actual function in square brackets:

 set wininsert [string trimleft [HTTP::uri] 4] 

Thanks Brian i'm still learning when it comes to Irules as you can see! so whats the timleft argument doing?

 

 

The Irule works now although its doing the following, when I go to

 

 

http://www.new.com/win/News-Archive/

 

 

its re-directing to

 

 

http://www.new.com/News-Advice/win/News-Archive/

 

 

instead of http://www.new.com/News-Advice/News-Archive/

 

 

 

its almost there

Wow, I completely misinterpreted string trimleft. I thought the chars variable was an integer of how many characters you wanted to trim from the left, but instead, it is a list of characters that you want to match, so it would be something like this:

set wininsert [string trimleft [HTTP::uri] /win]

This is very dangerous though since it could strip other parts of the URI away...I guess regsub string match is the best bet for this.

I tested this one and it works...maybe someone can come up with something better:

set wininsert [string range [HTTP::uri] 4 end]
set talkinsert [string range [HTTP::uri] 5 end]
set findinsert [string range [HTTP::uri] 5 end]