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Jim_1600
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May 24, 2011

Is there a way to capture an inbound URL and pass it along?

As an app developer, I have a situation were our app server needs to know the original inbound URL that was used to hit F5, in order to avoid triggering a "same origin policy".       Pres...
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hoolio
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May 27, 2011
Hi Jim,

 

 

You can insert a cookie using HTTP::cookie insert and a header using HTTP::header insert in the HTTP_REQUEST event:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/http__cookie

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/http__header

 

 

You can get the requested host using [HTTP::host] and the URI using [HTTP::uri]. If you're inserting something in a cookie, you should consider URI (percent) encoding it:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/http__host

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/http__uri

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/uri__encode

 

 

If you get stuck, let us know what you've tried and what issue(s) you're seeing. If you have an anonymized example of the original request headers you expect from the client and what you'd like the modified request to look like, we could give you a more exact example iRule.

 

 

Aaron