Multiple 301 redirects and F5 performance

Hi guys,

 

 

I have a requirement to do over 40 301 redirects (google ranking purposes) for one of our websites which I was going to implement via IRule attached to the Virtual server for the site.

 

 

The IRule is structured as follow's:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/index.html" } {

 

HTTP::respond 301 Location "blah"

 

}

 

if { [HTTP::uri] equals "/index.html" } {

 

HTTP::respond 301 Location "blah"

 

}

 

if

 

etc covering the 40 redirects.

 

 

I am wondering if there is a "faster" way to write this code?

 

 

Would url rewrites be of any benefit?

 

 

What is the performance overhead of running this Irule?

 

 

Is this the right approach?

 

 

Thanks in advance,

 

 

Dave