iRule for Server Testing

Hi Joe,

You are correct. This was the trace from an actual request from IE, not the raw telnet GET request I illustrated above. The telnet command I did was only to verify that if indeed I requested the REAL header (blacks.pnimedia.com) the request would work through that VS. Have a look at these samples, which you can try (this site is publically available):

Using a masked hostname (blacks.test.pnimedia.com):

telnet blacks.test.pnimedia.com 80
GET /web002/default.aspx HTTP/1.1
Host: blacks.test.pnimedia.com
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Content-Type: text/html
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:49:39 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Length: 39Bad Request (Invalid Hostname)

Using a real hostname (blacks.pnimedia.com):

- A HTTP 302 is returned, which is fine with me!

telnet blacks.test.pnimedia.com 80
GET /web002/default.aspx HTTP/1.1
Host: blacks.pnimedia.com
HTTP/1.1 302 Found
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 18:50:34 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/6.0
X-Powered-By: ASP.NET
X-AspNet-Version: 1.1.4322
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Location: /error.aspx
Cache-Control: private
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
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