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krmidhun_323560's avatar
krmidhun_323560
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Aug 09, 2017

iRule redirect with URL masking and URI rewrite

Hi,   I am looking for a iRule to do a URL redirection and also appending a URI to the redirected URL. The redirected URL should be masked so that the client will not see that in the address bar. ...
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  • Yann_Desmarest_'s avatar
    Yann_Desmarest_
    Aug 09, 2017

    Hi,

    You can't achieve what you are expecting without using iframes. But I strongly discourage you to use them for security reasons.

    You can instead redirect to a relative path and then forward the request to the correct backend server :

    `

    when HTTP_REQUEST { 

    if { [HTTP::host] contains "buyer.abc.com" and [HTTP::path] eq "/" } {
        HTTP::redirect "/apm/rest/MOBILITY/authService/1.0" 
        return
    }
    if {[HTTP::host] contains "buyer.abc.com" and [HTTP::path] eq "/apm/rest/MOBILITY/authService/1.0"} {
        node myserver01 9001
        return 
    }
}

    `

Yann_Desmarest_'s avatar
Yann_Desmarest_
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Hi,

You can't achieve what you are expecting without using iframes. But I strongly discourage you to use them for security reasons.

You can instead redirect to a relative path and then forward the request to the correct backend server :

`

when HTTP_REQUEST { 

    if { [HTTP::host] contains "buyer.abc.com" and [HTTP::path] eq "/" } {
        HTTP::redirect "/apm/rest/MOBILITY/authService/1.0" 
        return
    }
    if {[HTTP::host] contains "buyer.abc.com" and [HTTP::path] eq "/apm/rest/MOBILITY/authService/1.0"} {
        node myserver01 9001
        return 
    }
}

`

krmidhun_323560's avatar
krmidhun_323560
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Aug 09, 2017

Thanks Yann for the prompt response. I am a newbie to iRuling. So isn't it just possible to redirect https://buyer.abc.com to without using a pool or node in the backend and let the redirection itself take care of the traffic getting forwarded to the server.

 

Another thought is that can we use the pool instead of node while using the relative path method?