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Daeron_165943
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Aug 07, 2014

HTTP: respond 404 and redirect to url

Greetings,   I need a solution to respond to client with code 404, and redirect to page with custom 404 error, when client requests specific uri, and his ip is not in rfc1918 range. Right now i don...
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nitass
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Aug 10, 2014

There is first variant proposed to customer, but they need send to client side exactly 404 code.

 

you can send 404 with meta refresh using HTTP::respond command. the command should look like this except code is 404 instead of 200. anyway, i think it may not be good for SEOs.

 

Redirect to a custom error page when server response is matched with any specific code

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/questions/redirect-to-a-custom-error-page-when-server-response-is-matched-with-any-specific-code

 

404 Error Pages and Redirects for SEOs

 

http://www.mcanerin.com/en/articles/301-redirect-404-error.asp

 

just my 2 cents.