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Manu_Nair
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Feb 22, 2022

iRule to Forward Traffic Based on URL Name

Hi, I am in a situation where we have shortage of IP address and am looking for an alternative way to forward traffic to pools based on URL. I am not really good with iRule hence looking for assista...
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  • neeeewbie's avatar
    neeeewbie
    Feb 23, 2022

    Hi 

    below irule will help

    https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K27803480

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
      if { ([string tolower [HTTP::host]] eq "host1") {
            pool pool1
        } elseif { ([string tolower [HTTP::host]] eq "host2")  {
            pool pool2
        }
    }

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Manu_Nair
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Feb 22, 2022

Thanks for the reply, but what the guide shows there is to forward traffic based on the URI (or path). I am looking specifically for different hostnames(URL names) which i am not sure what they call in the irule, http host or header???  so i am not clear how to achive this. 

Need to extract the URL name through irule and based on the name, forward it to the pools.