Forum Discussion

subhasish_prati's avatar
subhasish_prati
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
Jan 16, 2019

irule not working

I am using the below irule in the WIP and the outcome expected is when the extension is exp it should direct to specific IP address and respectively for other extension . I am able to see increase in...
application delivery
iRules
LTM
Kai_Wilke's avatar
Kai_Wilke
Icon for MVP rankMVP
Jan 16, 2019

Hi Subhasish Pratihar,

the command 

HTTP::respond 301 "Location" "https://a.b.c.d:8082/exp"
will send a HTTP response to the clients informing them that the resource has been "Moved Permanently" to the new location 
https://a.b.c.d:8082/exp
.

The clients will send then a new request directly to the URL 

https://a.b.c.d:8082/exp
and should also cache the new location locally, so that subsequent request will be redirected within the browser without sending any traffic to the old location...

Is this what you are trying to accomplish? I'm asking because lots of users are getting confused with terms "redirect to a different site" and "forward the ongoing request to a given backend pool".

Cheers, Kai