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Vinsanity904_19's avatar
Vinsanity904_19
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Mar 17, 2015

HTTP to HTTPS://wwww iRule

Hello,   I have a pair of physical F5's sitting in front of an IIS farm. My understanding is it's better/easier to use iRules instead of IIS Re-write rules for what I'm trying to do.   Can some...
http to https
irule
Michael_Jenkins's avatar
Michael_Jenkins
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Mar 17, 2015

With an irule, you can do that pretty easily. Just tolower the HOST and if it's not redirect. Something like this. It won't test for https (I assume you're vip only accepts 443 (and you can create an 80 vip that automatically redirects everything to https using the built-in 

_sys_https_redirect
irule or a Local Traffic Policy).

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    switch [string tolower [HTTP::host]] {
        "www.url.com" { 
             Do nothing
        }
        default {
            HTTP::redirect "https://www.url.com[HTTP::uri]"
        }
    }
}