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Dbow_21284
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May 18, 2010

Rewrite Host Header iRule on VS that changes to HOST Header on same VS

Hello guys,     I have a situation where our developers have a sight running on HTTPS that needs to rewrite the host header to a new host header, but DNS points it to the same VS on my LTM. I...
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spark_86682
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May 22, 2010
Well, if you're talking about the location bar in the clients' browser, then all the header fiddling in the world won't change that. You need to do a redirect to the new location, something like: 
when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if {[HTTP::host] equals "mydomain.net" } {
    HTTP::redirect "https://sub.mydomain.net[HTTP::uri]"
  }
}