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Ryan_78003
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Jul 28, 2010

Redirecting to Mobile Sites occasional failure

The situation:   I need to redirect mobile devices to mobile versions of sites. The catch is not all sites have mobile versions. In the iRule I regex to determine if the client is a mobile device, ...
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Ryan_78003
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Jul 28, 2010
Basically yes. There is other logic that it does to see if the site is even has a possibility of a mobile site, that is checked against a data source as its small static data.

 

 

And about 2-3% of the time the iRule mysteriously dies with no errors before the GET is processed. Its not a site specific thing either, if I do 30-50 requests for the same site back to back I will usually see at least one redirection failure.