ProxyPass

If you send an HTTP redirect, the client will see the change in their address bar. If you rewrite the URI and/or host before sending the request to the server, the client will not see the change. So in concept you could modify the ProxyPassv10 iRule to send a redirect instead of rewriting the URI, but you'll need to strip out a fair amount of code related to the rewriting. You can send a 302 redirect with HTTP::redirect or any HTTP response with HTTP::respond.

 

 

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

 

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

 

 

Aaron

Thanks!

 

 

If I can't get ProxyPass to work this way and use HTTP:respond instead - how could I write an HTTP::respond for multiple redirects in the same irule

 

 

e.g. this is how I'd do one for a single redirect at the moment

 

 

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when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

switch [string tolower [HTTP::host]] { "123.com"

 

{

 

HTTP::respond 301 Location "http://www.123.com[HTTP::uri]"

 

}

 

}

 

}

 

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My proxypass DataGroupList external file /config/ProxyPass123 contains multiple redirects like

 

 

"www.123.com/land" := "www.123.com/Shows/land/tabid/26/Default.aspx",

 

 

"www.123.com/aw" := "www.123.com/Shows/Advanced/tabid/45/Default.aspx",

 

 

"www.123.com/attack" := "www.123.com/Shows/Attack/tabid/14/Default.aspx",

 

 

"www.123.com/plenty" := "www.123.com/Shows/Plenty/tabid/27/Default.aspx",

 

 

"www.123.com/blogs" := "www.123.com/Shows/Blogs/tabid/93/Default.aspx",

 

 

"www.123.com/OP" := "www.123.com/Shows/Plenty/tabid/57/Default.aspx",

 

 

"www.123.com/derbury" := "www.123.com/Shows/derbury/tabid/58/Default.aspx",

 

 

"www.123.com/Central" := "www.123.com/Shows/Central/tabid/29/Default.aspx",

 

 

"www.123.com/channel" := "www.123.com/Shows/tabid/397/Default.aspx",

 

 

"www.123.com/church" := "www.123.com/Shows/derbury/tabid/58/Default.aspx",

 

 

"www.123.com/events" := "www.123.com/Events/tabid/699/Default.aspx",

Here is an example which checks the HTTP path (set to lower case for IIS apps) and sends a 301 response based on the datagroup entries you have above. Note that I've removed all checks of the host. If you want to add handling for other hosts, you can put the switch inside a check on HTTP::host. If you want to check if the requested path starts with the strings, you can add the -glob flag to the switch and add a * to the end of the path(s):

switch wiki page

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

when HTTP_REQUEST {

    Set the path to lowercase 
   switch [string tolower [HTTP::path]] {
      "/land" {
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "/Shows/land/tabid/26/Default.aspx"
      }
      "/aw" {
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "/Shows/Advanced/tabid/45/Default.aspx"
      }
      "/attack" {
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "/Shows/Attack/tabid/14/Default.aspx"
      }
      "/plenty" {
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "/Shows/Plenty/tabid/27/Default.aspx"
      }
      "/blogs" {
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "/Shows/Blogs/tabid/93/Default.aspx"
      }
      "/op" {
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "/Shows/Plenty/tabid/57/Default.aspx"
      }
      "/derbury" {
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "/Shows/derbury/tabid/58/Default.aspx"
      }
      "/central" {
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "/Shows/Central/tabid/29/Default.aspx"
      }
      "/channel" {
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "/Shows/tabid/397/Default.aspx"
      }
      "/church" {
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "/Shows/derbury/tabid/58/Default.aspx"
      }
      "/events" {
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "/Events/tabid/699/Default.aspx"
      }
      default {
          Take some default action?
      }
   }
}

Aaron

Cheers - works great!

Good to hear you got this working.

 

 

Aaron

One more question if I may... can wildcards be used e.g. using siteurls.config to look for characters in URI and redirect

 

 

[RewriterRule]

 

[LookFor].*tabid/786/.*[/LookFor]

 

[SendTo]http://www.123.com/error404.aspx[/SendTo]

 

[/RewriterRule]

 

 

Could I change this to an iRule as follows - how would you use string match for glob style wildcard pattern matching: (string match "*/tabid/786/*" [HTTP::uri])

 

 

Would this work?

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

Set the path to lowercase

 

switch -glob [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] {

 

"*/tabid/786/*" {

 

HTTP::respond 301 Location "http://www.123.com/error404.aspx"

 

}

 

}

 

}

 

 

That looks exactly correct. If as in your original post, you want to check for multiple patterns that use the same action, you can group them using a -

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    Set the path to lowercase
   switch -glob [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] {
      "*/tabid/737/*" -
      "*/tabid/746/*" -
      "*/tabid/786/*" {
         HTTP::respond 301 Location "http://www.123.com/error404.aspx" 
      } 
   }   
}

Aaron

AWESOME!

 

 

Changed slightly to :

 

 

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when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

 

Set the path to lowercase

 

switch -glob [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] {

 

"*tabid/737/*" -

 

"*tabid/746/*" -

 

"*tabid/786/*" {

 

HTTP::respond 301 Location "http://www.123.com/error404.aspx"

 

}

 

}

 

}

 

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Thanks again!