Create Virtual Server with curl, json and icontrol REST

Hi,

I'd go back to using a stream profile and STREAM::expression iRule. While you can't use positive lookaheads, you can modify your stream expression to match more of the source string than you need to replace and then inspect the match and customize the replacement in the STREAM_MATCHED event using STREAM::match and STREAM::replace. Here are the related wiki pages for the commands. You can check the STREAM::expression page for an example of the rewriting in STREAM_MATCH:

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

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

This example shows how you can use STREAM::match in the STREAM_MATCHED event to check if the matched string meets some condition that can't easily be checked for using a single regex in STREAM::expression.

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    Disable the stream filter for all requests
   STREAM::disable
}
when HTTP_RESPONSE {  

    Check if response type is text  
   if {[HTTP::header value Content-Type] contains "text"}{  

       Match an http://*example.com string and replace it with nothing yet
      STREAM::expression {&http://.*?example\.com&&}

       Enable the stream filter for this response only  
      STREAM::enable  
   }  
}   
when STREAM_MATCHED {  

    Check if the matched string meets some condition that can't easily be checked for using a single regex in STREAM::expression
   if {[STREAM::match] starts_with "host1"}{

       Replace http:// with https:// and do the replacement
      STREAM::replace "[string map {http:// https://} [STREAM::match]]"
      log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::local_port]: matched: [STREAM::match], replaced with: [string map {http:// https://} [STREAM::match]]"  
   }
}

Aaron