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mtobkes_64700
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Oct 23, 2014

iRule - Prepend Path to URI

Hoping someone can point me in the right direction...   I need to prepend /abc to all requests to www.host.com. I cannot use redirects.   Request: www.host.com/testing   Needs to hit the ser...
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  • mimlo_61970's avatar
    mimlo_61970
    Oct 23, 2014

    For reasons I can't explain, string map is not matching [HTTP::uri]

    Since this is a simple prepend, you could do this instead

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [HTTP::host] starts_with "www.host.com"}{
        HTTP::uri "/abc[HTTP::uri]"
    }
}
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mimlo_61970
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For reasons I can't explain, string map is not matching [HTTP::uri]

Since this is a simple prepend, you could do this instead

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [HTTP::host] starts_with "www.host.com"}{
        HTTP::uri "/abc[HTTP::uri]"
    }
}
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mtobkes_64700
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Oct 23, 2014
Thanks mimlo, that's exactly what I was looking for! No need to perform string map. Thanks