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Replace HTML code with multiple links
So here is my dilemma. I need to create an iRule that will:
1. Match a link
2. Replace each link with one from a list.
So, on the response request, the F5 WA will match data.mysite.com and replace each data.mysite.com with data1.mysite.com thru data10.mysite.com. I'm sure this has already been done before but I'm clueless as to what to search for.
FYI...They reason why we just do not use multiconnect in the WA policy is the data hosted on data.mysite is hosted externally from the WA.
Thanks in advance,
Brian
- I just want to make sure I understand...for all fully qualified URLs in a returned HTML page (IMG SRC and HREFs), you want to replace 'data.' with 'data{n}.', where n={1..10}?
- That's exactly what I'm trying to accomplish. Thank you.
- Okay..I'm a little bit closer here....
when HTTP_RESPONSE { if { [HTTP::status] == 200} { find and replace STREAM::expression ",http://data.,http://data1.," STREAM::enable } }
Any ideas how I can now step thru this to rewrite each data{n} where n={1-10} - Yeah, I was going that way too but I think the stream profile substitution only does 1 replacement at a time. I started hacking away at something based on the SSN masking iRule here:
http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/SocialSecurityNumberScrubbing.html
...but had to set it aside for a bit. In a nutshell:
1. De-chunk and gather up the response
2. Find the strings
3. iterate over them and append an incremented value - Well it took an act of God and some great help from Greg with F5 support but we accomplished the task at hand!
when RULE_INIT { set this to 0 for production set debug 1 } when HTTP_RESPONSE { Counter goes from 1 to 10 set data_counter 1 Disable the stream filter by default STREAM::disable Check if response type is html or javascript if { ( [HTTP::header value Content-Type] contains "text/html" ) or ( [HTTP::header value Content-Type] contains "javascript" )}{ Match any http://data. and don't automatically replace it with anything STREAM::expression "@http://data\.mydomain\.com@DUMMY@" Enable the stream filter for this response only STREAM::enable } } when STREAM_MATCHED { if { $::debug >= 1 } { log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::local_port]: matched: [STREAM::match], replaced with: [string map [list "data" [format "data%u" $data_counter] ] [STREAM::match] ]" } STREAM::replace [string map [list "data" [format "data%u" $data_counter] ] [STREAM::match] ] Iterate the data_counter set data_counter [ expr { $data_counter % 10 + 1 } ] } 
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That's a great solution. Thanks for posting it.
Aaron
