redirection to http or https based on uri

This should be very easy, although it's not 100% clear what the requirements are. I assume from the post that:

1) You want traffic destined for URI /xxxxx to stay plaintext HTTP

2) Anything else you want to send to an SSL-enabled virtual server

If this is correct, setup a client SSL virtual server, then use something like this on your port 80 virtual server - the idea is that if it matches '/xxxx' send it through to the pool. Otherwise, redirect over to HTTPS. This isn't tested, but should serve as an example.

 
  when HTTP_REQUEST { 
  
 if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/xxxx" } { 
  
 pool plaintext-pool 
 } else { 
 HTTP::redirect https://[HTTP::host][HTTP::uri] 
 } 
  
 } 
 

HTH,

-Matt