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David_Y_20509
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May 21, 2010

HTTP Redirect OWA without SSL

Hello, I am new to the F5 iRules. I am trying to load balance the Exchange OWA. Since it is internal, we are not using SSL. I have used the following iRule from the deployment guide, but modified t...
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naladar_65658
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May 21, 2010
Hello David,

 

 

Joe Pruitt wrote an excellent post back in 2005 that provides good examples of redirecting traffic without changing/updating the users browser. He refers to it as transparent header modification. Basically you scan for the uri in question, when your condition is met you then pass a different uri to the backend server and the client never knows the difference.

 

 

Here is a link to that:

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/joe/archive/2005/07/27/ModifyingUriWithoutRedirect.aspx

 

 

I am not familiar with your network setup, BUT the way we do our OWA traffic is not by setting up an iRule like that. What we do is have a simple string iRule that looks for the "/owa/" in the URI and when it sees it, it just sends the traffic over to the pool of OWA servers. What do you have setup as your default pool for that VIP?