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Matt_70198
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Sep 26, 2013

redirecting to different port based on URL

Hello,   Did a bit of searching on this before-hand to come up with what I've got, wanted to run it by you to see if it will hold water.   There are a large number of URLs, around 80, which sha...
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StephanManthey
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Sep 26, 2013

In case you want to redirect your clients to SSL, you would follow your initial approach of using the HTTP::redirect. The term 'forward' is not matching here. Indeed the client will get a notification (302/301 'redirect') via location header to connect to the specified URL. The client will open a new connection to a different port. Kevin´s solution is providing a transparent pool selection instead.

Assigning a 
HTTP::redirect "https://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]"
is a common solution on a :80 virtual server to force a client to use SSL.