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MohanK
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Apr 21, 2021

Reverse Proxy using Cookie in iRule or Policy

Hello,   We need to add below irules/policy for google cloud reverse proxy:   1. The application will drop a cookie on the first request of https://abc.site.com 2. The LTM needs to detect t...
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  • spalande's avatar
    spalande
    Apr 21, 2021

    Create a pool for Google Cloud destination. Modify iRule with pool name accordingly. 

    when HTTP_REQUEST {    
    if { ( [HTTP::cookie exists Experience] ) } {
     HTTP::header replace "Host" "def.site.com"	
     HTTP::uri /home
     pool def.site.com_pool	 
    }  else {
	 return
	}      
}
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MohanK
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Sanjay, actually https://def.site.com/home is external url, so we don’t have any pool internally. Can I just remove only the pool part from the above iRule to forward to an external url ? Or is there any other condition to add ?

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spalande
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Apr 26, 2021

To forward to that destination without modifying a original URL, you need to add the pool or node.

I understand, you might not have a pool currently, but you would need to create a pool with the site IP address and enable routing (if needed) and open FW.

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Alternatively, you can just send a redirect to a client to that external URL, but it would change the URL and your requirement is to keep the original URL intact in the browser if I understand it correctly.​