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Tom_Farrar_1221's avatar
Tom_Farrar_1221
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Aug 04, 2014

HTTP::redirect occasionally fails

Hi All, Very occasionally our HTTP::redirect iRule appears to fail to redirect HTTP traffic to HTTPS. The remedy tends to be refreshing the page, which then picks up the redirect and everything is ...
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nitass_89166's avatar
nitass_89166
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Aug 04, 2014

What I'm seeing is when I hit 'http://madeup.madeupdomain.com' it doesn't redirect to HTTPS. One refresh of the browser later and it redirects fine.

 

have you ever used http analyzer tool such as httpfox? it may be useful to find out what is going on.

 

HttpFox

 

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/httpfox/

 

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    Tom_Farrar_1221
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    Aug 04, 2014
    Thanks Nitass. I've already tried catching the problem using Live Headers and the web developer toolkit, but typically I've never got it running when I finally get it to trigger (which tends to be the day after I've spent an hour mucking around trying to trigger it).