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MihirP1129's avatar
MihirP1129
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Jul 03, 2019

iRule to add www without changing URL

Hello F5 community,   Is there a way to add www in front of the URL while keeping the URL intact? For example:   https://abc.com/testfolder/blahblahblah changed to https://WWW.abc.com/testfolder/...
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  • Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
    Stanislas_Piro2
    Jul 05, 2019

    Do you want to change Host header sent from the client in server side connection or do you want to redirect the client to  https://WWW.abc.com/testfolder/blahblahblah

     

    to redirect the client, use following code

     

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if {[HTTP::host] eq "abc.com"} {
        HTTP::redirect "https://www.abc.com[HTTP::uri]"
    }
}

     

JG's avatar
JG
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Jul 04, 2019

Probably a description of the problem you are trying to solve would help here.

  • MihirP1129's avatar
    MihirP1129
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    Jul 05, 2019

    I don't know the full details, but what I was told from our web developers, is that this is related to an SSO authentication between the client and us. Client host a site on their end which the user authenticate to, then they click on a link on the page that takes them to a URL we host (let's say we host abc.com). So the minute the user clicks on the link, it'll send a request for https://abc.com/blahblahappenduserID (it'll append a unique ID or info to the URL) but the SSO authentication is failing, because it needs to be https://WWW.abc.com/blahblahappenduserID. I'm trying to figure out a way to add the www for the incoming request without changing the URL. Hope that makes sense.