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Thomas_Bennett_
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May 23, 2006

Large numbers of http redirects

I have a customer who wants to get the ltm to perform a redirect to a different host and URI based on the URI. This in itself is not a problem.     However the list the customer has produced for...
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Al_Carandang_11
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May 23, 2006
Most of the file commands are disabled according to the list of disabled TCL commands that can be found in the wiki at

 

 

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

 

 

The list doesn't include 'read' though.

 

 

What you would have to do is use the findclass command and create a DataGroup or class to implement your redirects. check out

 

 

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

 

 

As for performance, you can try the following to time your irules

 

 

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

 

 

-Al