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SteveEason
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Sep 18, 2019

HTTP to HTTPS redirect is stripping out URL referral info

We are using an iApp to build out our site using the default HTTP port 80 to HTTPS port 443 options. Our developers have started using referral logic on one of the sites and if a client of ours uses...
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crodriguez
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Sep 18, 2019

You need to make sure you are including HTTP::uri in the redirect string you generate in the iApp. (I am assuming the redirect happens via an iRule the iApp generates and associates with the port 80 virtual server.)

The example below is from the f5.http iApp which is supplied by default on a BIG-IP system:

set redirect_rule [string map [list _PORT $redirect_to_port] {
   when HTTP_REQUEST {
      HTTP::redirect https://[getfield [HTTP::host] : 1]:_PORT[HTTP::uri]
   }
}]