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Greg_Hooper_370
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Nov 17, 2010

iRule to replace http:// ipaddress for https://fqdn

Hi,

 

 

Apologies for asking this question but as a complete newbie to the F5 some guidance would be most helpful. We have the following problem

 

 

User sends the following request to Business Objects Infoview

 

 

https://fqdn/InfoViewApp/Logon4.jsp?CMS=123.123.123.123

 

 

Once the logon has occurred which works correctly, the application returns the following.

 

 

http://123.123.123.123/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp.

 

 

This obviously fails as the user in an internet based user running via HTTPS so obviously has no route to the local servers via their IP or HTTP. What I need to do is replace

 

 

http://123.123.123.123/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp with https://fqdn/OpenDocument/opendoc/openDocument.jsp

 

 

I am assuming an iRule is the way to go does anybody have any advice or examples?

 

 

Many Thanks,

 

 

Greg.

 

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  • nitass's avatar
    nitass
    Icon for Employee rankEmployee
    Nov 17, 2010
    have u tried this solution? didn't it work?

     

     

    SOL6912: Configuring an HTTP profile to rewrite URLs so that redirects from an HTTP server specify the HTTPS protocol

     

    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/900/sol6912.html
  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
    Icon for Cirrostratus rankCirrostratus
    Nov 18, 2010
    If you need to use the hostname that resolves to the virtual server instead of the IP, you could use an iRule like this: 

    
http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/RewriteHTTPRedirectHostname.html

when HTTP_REQUEST {

    Save host name (use VS IP if no HTTP host header was found
   if {[HTTP::host] eq ""}{
      set host [IP::local_addr]
   } else {
      set host [HTTP::host]
   }
}
when HTTP_RESPONSE {

    Check if server response is a redirect
   if { [HTTP::header is_redirect]} {

       Log original and updated values
      log local0. "Original Location header value: [HTTP::header value Location],\
         updated: [string map -nocase "http:// https:// [IP::server_addr] $host" [HTTP::header value Location]]"

       Do the update, replacing http:// with https:// and the server IP with the host or VS IP
      HTTP::header replace Location [string map -nocase "http:// https:// [IP::server_addr] $host" [HTTP::header value Location]]
   }
}

    Aaron