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Sean_M__85845
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Feb 08, 2012

HTTP::redirect Help

I am looking for some help to create an iRule that will look for a variable that follows "/open/" in the URI and then reuses that variable in the redirect.     Basically when a user hits the fol...
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nitass
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Feb 08, 2012
[root@ve1023:Active] config  b virtual bar list
virtual bar {
   snat automap
   pool foo
   destination 172.28.19.79:80
   ip protocol 6
   rules myrule
   profiles {
      http {}
      tcp {}
   }
}
[root@ve1023:Active] config  b rule myrule list
rule myrule {
   when HTTP_REQUEST {
   set id [findstr [HTTP::path] "/open/" 6 end]
   if { $id != ""  } {
      HTTP::respond 301 location http://www.xyz.com/MigrationID.aspx?migrationID=$id
   }
}
}

[root@ve1023:Active] config  curl -I http://172.28.19.79/open/42579900
HTTP/1.0 301 Moved Permanently
location: http://www.xyz.com/MigrationID.aspx?migrationID=42579900
Server: BigIP
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 0