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Ten_92952
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Sep 03, 2010

Redirect HTTP to HTTPS for some users

I have a need to redirect any external users that try to access a web site via HTTP to HTTPS.

 

 

I also need to allow internal users to access the exact same site via both HTTP AND HTTPS.

 

I was using this irule to redirect outside users to HTTPS

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST { HTTP::redirect https://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri] }

 

 

I then had inside users go to a different virtual server that used the same nodes but did not do any redirecting.

 

 

This does not work, it appears the irule is redirecting eveything to HTTPS.

 

 

Is thre a way I can write the irule to not redirect any devices with a particular source subnet ( say 10.3.4.0/24) and redirect anything else to HTTPS?

 

 

Or is there a better way to accomplish this?

 

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

 

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  • Chris_Miller's avatar
    Chris_Miller
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    Sep 07, 2010
    I like to use data groups in situations like this. You can make an address-type data group that contains the subnets you don't want to redirect. If you're using 10.x, your iRule will look something like this: 

    
when HTTP_REQUEST { 
   if { [TCP::local_port] eq 80 and ![class match [IP::client_addr] eq datagroup] } {
     HTTP::redirect "https://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]" } }

    That's how I'd do it anyways