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Jesse_Mauntel_4's avatar
Jesse_Mauntel_4
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May 30, 2014

iRule to imitate rewrite with proxy [P] - revisited

Much like chemaf's question here: irule-to-imitate-rewrite-with-proxy-p, I have a need to imitate a feature of Apache's mod_rewrite module. However, the difference between chemaf's requirements and ...
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Colin_Walker_12's avatar
Colin_Walker_12
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Jun 02, 2014

So you're looking to take the search terms passed into your site by a client, forward them off to a third party (In this example http://externalsite.differentdomain.com/search), fetch the results, and return those to the client?

 

If that's correct then yes, this is possible via an iRule. Not necessarily entry level iRuling, but possible. Check out:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.sideband.ashx

 

And an example:

 

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/iRules.Sideband-connection-HTTP-example.ashx