HTTP::respond + append URI from HTTP::request

Hi lsouth,

I am not sure why you want to use the HTTP::respond for achieving this, this can be acheved in a very simple format. Before I go ahead and type the iRule here, for the benefit of the newbies that might stumble across this post here are a few basics

Take a URL of a website, say iam trying to download chrome from Google, My adress bar will show

http://www.google.com/chrome

In this there are 3 parts

1. "http://" --> This is the protocol, other examples that you would see are https or ftp

2. "www.google.com" --> This is hostname of the ser ver you are trying to access (known as host)

3. "/chrome" --> This is URI or Uniform Resource Identifier, it refernces the location inside the server.

This is how we find our way in the websites

To reference all this in iRules, you can use the following tags [HTTP::host] and [HTTP::uri]

Please be informed that "/" is a part of URI, known as the root location. So when you try to access the host without an URI, your browser automatically appends the "/"

So for your case we can try and use the HTTP::redirect feature, as it does the 302 redirection as you want it

Use this iRule

when HTTP_REQUEST {
if {[HTTP::host] equals "host1.domain.com" } {
HTTP::redirect https://securehost.domain.com[HTTP::uri]
}
}

This will redirect your request and append your URI

so if anyone tries to access http://host1.domain.com/foo/foo/foo.bar he/she gets redirected to https://securehost.domain.com/foo/foo/foo.bar

Hope this helps