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Hiro_Castro_341's avatar
Hiro_Castro_341
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Nov 23, 2017

Remove /api from uri and forward remaining uri

Hi F5 gurus, I have a real quick question, I am looking for a possible syntax to strip out the /api from all the URIs that hit my VIP and send the remaining URL without changes. Is that possible? I ...
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Lee_Sutcliffe's avatar
Lee_Sutcliffe
Icon for Nacreous rankNacreous
Nov 24, 2017

If the user requesting "/api/index/folder" but you want the user to see /index/folder you could use a redirect:

 when HTTP_REQUEST { 
  if {[HTTP::uri] starts_with "/api"} { 
    set trim /[getfield [HTTP::uri] "/" 2]
    set endUri [string range [HTTP::uri] [string length $trim] end]
    HTTP::redirect http://[HTTP::host]$endUri
    } 
 }