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Mersin_108215
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Jan 30, 2014

HTTP Respond and Redirect Together

Hi -   I need to be able to send an HTTP 404 along with a redirect. Can this be done? Why I want to do this... My OOS page is hosted externally. Currently I have an iRule that will send a 404 wi...
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  • Tim_K_92675's avatar
    Tim_K_92675
    Jan 30, 2014

    Maybe something like this...

    when HTTP_RESPONSE {
if { ([HTTP::status] equals "404") } {
    HTTP::respond 404 content " "
    }
}
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Tim_K_92675
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Jan 30, 2014

Sorry, it didn't like the html tags. Anyway, you could send the 404 back to the client that includes an html redirect such as meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;url=[destination_url]

 

  • Mersin_108215's avatar
    Mersin_108215
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    Jan 30, 2014
    Hey Tim, So this worked...kind-of :) It only works when hitting the site using Firefox. Chrome just spits out what I have in quotes IE loads the page partially. I'm a bit of a novice here... any ideas on what else I may need? Here's my iRule as it looks now: when HTTP_REQUEST { if { ([active_members [LB::server pool]] < 1 ) } { HTTP::header insert Edge-Control bypass-cache HTTP::respond 404 content " " } }
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    Mersin_108215
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    Jan 30, 2014
    oops, tags got me too... In quotes I have the following with the brackets replaced with http://mystatus.othersite.com meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;url=[destination_url]
  • Tim_K_92675's avatar
    Tim_K_92675
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    Jan 30, 2014
    You'll need to add all the opening and closing html tags, such as... html head meta http-equiv=refresh content=0;url=[destination_url] head html