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Merlin_kv_17750
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Jun 17, 2015

Redirect without path rewriting

Hello,   A company wants to use local link accessing public resource, but after redirect url path shouldn't change to external and stay local. Another words, it is possible dynamically rewrite pub...
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  • Hannes_Rapp_162's avatar
    Hannes_Rapp_162
    Jun 17, 2015

    Yep, it can be done 

    when HTTP_REQUEST {

  if { ( [HTTP::host] == "fqdn.clientside.int" ) && ( [HTTP::path] == "/" ) }{
    HTTP::host "www.foo.com"  Rewrite the HTTP Host header value, before routing the request to a pool-member.
    HTTP::path "/blabla"  Rewrite the request path (Use if path masking is needed).
  }
}
Hannes_Rapp_162's avatar
Hannes_Rapp_162
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Yep, it can be done 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

  if { ( [HTTP::host] == "fqdn.clientside.int" ) && ( [HTTP::path] == "/" ) }{
    HTTP::host "www.foo.com"  Rewrite the HTTP Host header value, before routing the request to a pool-member.
    HTTP::path "/blabla"  Rewrite the request path (Use if path masking is needed).
  }
}
Hannes_Rapp_162's avatar
Hannes_Rapp_162
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Jun 17, 2015
This solution is a feasible option if the public webside is an applet, or a HTML website with relative hyperlinks only. If it's a HTML website which includes full links (containing original Host value), it will not be enough.