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rhpatrick_12082
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Apr 08, 2013

HTTP::redirect challenges with Maven requests

Hi,

 

 

I am a newbie and am struggling with a problem that is likely very simple so I appreciate your patience with me.

 

We are trying to configure a rule to redirect https requests from one host to another host with some extra path prepended to it. For example, we want to redirect all requests to machine1.mycompany.com/... to machine2.mycompany.com/content/secure/maven/...

 

We use an HTTP::redirect statement that basically does this:

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [HTTP::host] == "machine1.mycomany.com" } {

 

HTTP::redirect "https://machine2.mycompany.com/content/secure/maven[HTTP::uri]

 

}

 

}

 

This works fine from a browser but Maven is passing the entire URL including the protocol and hostname in the GET request and what we see coming back from Big IP is the following (Note the Location URL:

 

HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently

 

Location: https://machine2.mycompany.com/cont...-1.2.3.pom

 

Server: BigIP

 

Connection: close

 

Content-Length: 0

 

 

How can I correct this rule to make it work with Maven that passes the protocol and hostname in the URI?

 

 

Thanks for your patience as I learn,

 

Robert

 

 

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3 Replies

  • rhpatrick_12082's avatar
    rhpatrick_12082
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    Apr 08, 2013

    Sorry, somehow the location URL got truncated:

    Basically, it looks like this:

    https://machine2.mycompany.com/content/secure/mavenhttps://machine1.mycompany.com/com/mycompany/foo/1.2.3/foo-1.2.3.pom

  • Kevin_Stewart's avatar
    Kevin_Stewart
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    Apr 08, 2013
    How about something like this: 

    
when HTTP_REQUEST {
    set host "https://machine1.mycompany.com"
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with $host } {
         Host is in URI
        set uri [string range [HTTP::uri] [string length $host] end]
        HTTP::respond 302 Location "https://machine2.mycompany.com$uri"
    } else {
        HTTP::redirect "https://machine2.mycompany.com/content/secure/maven[HTTP::uri]
    }
}