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bdragna_8791
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Feb 25, 2008

HTTP Redirect/Rewrite iRule question

I'm kind of new to this, so I'm not even sure if what I'm trying to do is possible or if I'm going about it all wrong. When the client's web browser makes a request to "host.domain.com" I want the...
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hoolio
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Feb 25, 2008
If you send a redirect to the new domain, the client's browser will update when they make a request to the new domain. If you rewrite the Host header value and send it to the server in the pool, the BIG-IP will proxy the request and the change will be transparent to the client.

 

 

Check out Kirk's proxypass rule in the CodeShare for a very complete solution which handles the Host header rewriting as well as the response headers/content.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/proxypass (Click here)

 

 

Aaron