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RobS
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Jan 25, 2013

Proxy External Virtual Server to Internal non-LTM website v11.2.1

I've been asked if I can create an external public facing VS that brings users to an internal website that has no association with the F5 (ie http://external-site.com -> http://internal-site.com/abc/...
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nitass
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Jan 25, 2013
is this usable? 

[root@ve10:Active] config  b virtual bar list
virtual bar {
   destination 172.28.19.252:80
   ip protocol 6
   rules myrule
   profiles {
      http {}
      tcp {}
   }
}
[root@ve10:Active] config  b rule myrule list
rule myrule {
   when HTTP_REQUEST {
  switch [string tolower [HTTP::path]] {
    "/" {
      HTTP::header replace Host "internal-site.com"
      HTTP::uri "/abc/def/site.aspx"
      snat automap
      node 200.200.200.101 80
    }
    default {
       do something
      reject
    }
  }
}
}

[root@ve10:Active] config  ssldump -Aed -nni 0.0 port 80
New TCP connection 1: 172.28.19.251(47631) <-> 172.28.19.252(80)
1359177477.6073 (0.0011)  C>S
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GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.15.5 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
Accept: */*
Host: external-site.com

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New TCP connection 2: 200.200.200.253(47631) <-> 200.200.200.101(80)
1359177477.6131 (0.0035)  C>S
---------------------------------------------------------------
GET /abc/def/site.aspx HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.15.5 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
Accept: */*
Host: internal-site.com

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