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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 
    }
}

    `

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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 
    }
}

`

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Yann_Desmarest
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Aug 09, 2017

Redirecting the user mean that the browser will issue a request to the provided URL.

 

If the URL is absolute, the browser will issue a request to myserver01 on tcp port 9001.

 

If myserver01 resolve a virtual server IP, then the request will go through the Bigip.

 

otherwise, the request will be issued to the backend server without reaching the bigip.

 

You can also use the pool command instead of node.

 

Hope it help