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Richard_Cowell
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Mar 19, 2020

HTTP redirect and response

I have an external url that I want requests that contain a specific uri to be directed to an internal server. I then want the response to appear to come from the original URL. I have read and tried ...
application delivery
BIG-IP
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dennypayne
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Mar 19, 2020

Question: does internal.server.com have the BIG-IP as its' default gateway, or is the my.server.com virtual server configured to SNAT? If not, then the response won't come back through the iRule in any case.

 

If either of those situations is correct, then you shouldn't have to worry about the response side of things in the iRule - just enable a stream profile on the VIP to replace internal.server.com with my.server.com.