Nimbostratus
Nimbostratus
When I say transparently, I'm referring to a reverse-proxy configuration...if F5 can do that. I've worked with other load balancer products that can.
What I was wanting was this action: The user types in the first URL: "http://users.site.com/username" and gets the content from the external URL site. While proxying the content from the external site, HTML content that matches the external.host.com/xp/company is rewritten dynamically to match users.site.com so non-relative html links won't get broken. Can the F5 do that? We didn't have enough money for proper training after we bought these boxes. =P
If I can't do the html rewriting, I'll be forced to settle for a redirect. The redirect would allow users to stick with our old URL and give them time to start learning the external URL...it's just a longer URL/URI combination for them to remember and learn.