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F5__152984
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Sep 08, 2014

Inserting a 'virtual directory triplet' while rewriting the http header

I am doing reverse-proxying from one of the F5 VIP in DMZ to the same URL on the internal network, but on a a different Load balancer. For each request, I need to prefix the path with a consistently-...
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Kevin_Stewart
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Sep 10, 2014

Completely understood. But consider the effort required to parse through all of the response payloads to find every reference to a given set of URLs (images, css, javascript, other HTML documents, etc.) and rewrite those. And then rewrite them again in the requests. And if you have URLs buried in javascript code, you have to deal with that too. For that amount of effort, a seasoned, robust capability like APM portal mode is probably worth a closer look.