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Rick_16795's avatar
Rick_16795
Historic F5 Account
Jul 27, 2007

redirect rewrites

Hello,     I'm working with a customer who's app requires the use of redirect rewrites in the hppt profile. However   the last step of their application sends a redirect that points the cus...
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Deb_Allen_18
Historic F5 Account
Jul 27, 2007
You might be able to swap http profiles for just that one request, but I've never done that so I'm not sure...

I do know for sure that you can selectively re-write server-generated redirects with an iRule.

I would turn off Rewrite Redirects and use an iRule like this to rewrite all but the one to HTTPS:

when HTTP_RESPONSE {
  if { [HTTP::status] starts_with "3"}{
    if {[string tolower [HTTP::header Location]] != "http://host/logout.html"}{
      HTTP::header replace Location [string map -nocase {http:// https://} [HTTP::header Location]]
    }
  }
}

/deb