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Justin_Haggerty
Nimbostratus
Nimbostratusredirect works on some machines, doesn't on others
I've got the following rule in place:
when HTTP_REQUEST {
if { [HTTP::host] contains "old.com" } {
HTTP::redirect "https://new.com"
}
}
What I'm trying...
The clients are most likely being redirected, but are unable to follow it completely. You can see if LTM is sending the redirect and whether it is being followed by looking at a packet trace between the client and LTM, and you can see if the browser received & followed it using HTTPWatch (IE) or LiveHeaders (FireFox).
It's worth noting that your target URL is actually not complete, as it doesn't contain a URI (the object being requested), so in following the redirect, the browser and the server both have to do a bit of extra work: The server will send a redirect to the "/" URI (which may or may not be passed along properly through LTM, depending on whether the iRule is applied to a SSL virtual server and whether Rewrite Redirects is enabled), and the browser will have to follow it.
I'd recommend adding a URI to the redirect (if nothing else at least add a trailing "/" to the redirect string) to prevent the above mentioned additional request/response logistics. You might also want to set "Rewrite Redirects" to Matching in the related http profile.
HTH
/deb
