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Dan_Kop_23221's avatar
Dan_Kop_23221
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Dec 03, 2015

Redirect :: URI with # symbol

Have a URI that has "//hello"   We are looking to redirect anything that comes in with this to another URL. Here is what we have so far:   when HTTP_REQUEST {   if { [str...
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Kai_Wilke's avatar
Kai_Wilke
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Dec 03, 2015

Hi Root,

 

in this specific scenario "contains hello" wouldn't work either, since everything byte after the hash-sign is getting excluded from the browsers HTTP request.

 

URL in the address Bar : Url requested from server: www.sitea.com/

 

The portion after the hash-sign is called "fragment" and a pure client site functionality to select or scroll down to a specific section of the requested ressource.

 

For more information refer to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifierBasics

 

Note: The Basics fragment of the Wiki site causes your Browser to jump to the section containing the code 'id="Basics"'

 

To see what the browser is sending I'd recommend to use either Fiddler, HTTP-Watch or dump the entire HTTP request using iRules (e.g. "log [HTTP::request]"). Any of the tools would show you, that the client isn't even sending "/hello" to the server. And if this string is not send by the client the F5 can't make additional decissions based on this string, right?

 

Cheers, Kai