Redirecting to External IP Address

Hi Brett,

Sure, you can issue a redirect to a hostname or IP address. Here are some examples:

 
 when HTTP_REQUEST { 
  
     Redirect all requests to a new location using a 302 status redirect 
    HTTP::redirect "https://10.0.0.10/new_location.html" 
 } 
 

 
 when HTTP_REQUEST { 
  
     Redirect all requests to a new location using a 301 status 
    HTTP::respond 301 Location "https://10.0.0.10/new_location.html" 
 } 
 

If you want to check the destination IP address, you can use IP::local_addr. But for a virtual server defined on a single IP address, this would always be the VIP address. To check the client IP address, you can use IP::client_addr. To evaluate one IP address or subnet against another IP address or subnet, you can use the IP::addr command.

Here are wiki links for the various commands:

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/http__redirect

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/http__respond

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/ip__addr

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/ip__local_addr

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/ip__client_addr

Aaron