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ryan_rockwell_1
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May 14, 2014

nested elseif unexpected behaviour

I created an iRule to (first) redirect to maintenance page and then if available redirect traffic to 1 of 3 pools based on URI data groups. The iRule compiles fine but the result is unexpected. The...
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Kevin_Stewart's avatar
Kevin_Stewart
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May 21, 2014

Okay, so presumably if the maintenance page comes up, and that maintenance page has links to image objects, the client will fetch those resources. In your iRule, if the path ends with, say *.gif, then

HTTP::uri [string range [HTTP::uri] [string last / [HTTP::uri]] end]

which should be stripping any leading URI from the path.

/foo/bar/my_cat.gif = /my_cat.gif

Is that what you want? Would you need to do that at all, given you're only processing the maintenance mode condition and that maintenance page should have object references you can address directly?