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zeesh86_123075's avatar
zeesh86_123075
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Jun 13, 2014

irule performance issue

We recently got bought out and I had to redirect about 800 URI's. I wrote three irules to accomplish this because I was crossing the character limit for each irule. I noticed that the website took qu...
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  • Kevin_Davies_40's avatar
    Kevin_Davies_40
    Jun 13, 2014

    You should be using data classes for this task. Something similar to..

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if {[class match [HTTP::uri] equals myclass]} {
     HTTP::redirect [class match -value [HTTP::uri] equals myclass]
  }
}

    Then define a string data class with your redirect requirements.

    Name                  Value
/home                 http://newhome.host.com/home
/home2                http://otherhome.host.com
JG's avatar
JG
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Jun 13, 2014

I would just have a VIP to take all these requests at the F5 device and pass them to an Apache server at the backend to do all these redirects, which is a lot easier to set up and maintain.