Replacing JESSIONID in the URI with contents of JSESSIONID cookie

Something like this perhaps:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
   set j_uri [findstr [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] ";jsessionid=" 12]
   if { ( $j_uri ne "" ) and ( [HTTP::cookie exists JSESSIONID] ) } {
      if { $j_uri ne [HTTP::cookie value JSESSIONID] } {
         set newuri [string map "$j_uri [HTTP::cookie value JSESSIONID]" [HTTP::uri]]
         HTTP::redirect "http://[HTTP::host]$newuri"
      }
   }
}

Admittedly this is a crude example. I wasn't sure exactly how the jsessionid is formatted in the URI (part of the path, a query string value), or what (if any) values were after it and how they are delimited. Ultimately you'll need to tweak the findstr function to extract the jsessionid value from the URI. If the jsessionid value in the URI doesn't match the JSESSIONID cookie value, create a new URI by replacing the original value with the cookie value and then redirect the user to the new URI (with matching cookie).

Kevin,

Nice solution. In looking at this, I assume that the JSESSIONID cookie value that will get inserted into the URI will also include ";path=/Program". Any ideas on how I can strip that off within the same iRule?

Thanks.

Joe

The [HTTP::cookie value JSESSIONID] command should not contain the path or any other value other than the ID string. The cookie is coming from the client, so this information wouldn't be in the cookie header anyway. To test, add this line to the iRule:

log local0. [HTTP::cookie value JSESSIONID]