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Ankur_5273
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Jun 12, 2014

Rewrite the content in URI with a short URL

Hi Experts   I need assistance on shortening of URL as follows   If a web page with following Source URL is browsed , then a part of URI (highlighted in bold) should be converted to "en" (whi...
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    Kevin_Davies_40
    Jun 12, 2014

    I am unable to update my original post. Here is an updated version.

    If you simply want to mask URL's then apply a STREAM profile with the following iRule.

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
  log local0. "..in HTTP_REQUEST"

   no replacement for requests
  STREAM::disable
   disable compression server side
  HTTP::header remove "Accept-Encoding"
}
when HTTP_RESPONSE {
  log local0. "...in HTTP_RESPONSE"

   only replace text content
  if {!([HTTP::header value Content-Type] contains "text")}{ return}

  set search ""
  foreach pair [class get myclass] { 
    set search "$search@[lindex $pair 0]@[lindex $pair 1]@"
  }
  log local0. "String replace=$search"
  STREAM::expression $search
  STREAM::enable
}

    Then create a string data class myclass as follows...

    Name                                      Value
/secureapp/connect/report_en/REP   /en
/peter                             /pan

    And get the following output from a logs

    Rule /Common/myrule : ...in HTTP_REQUEST
Rule /Common/myrule : ...in HTTP_RESPONSE
Rule /Common/myrule : search=@/secureapp/connect/report_en/REP@/en@@/peter@/pan@

    And the resulting web page...

    It works!

/en
/pan
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nitass
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Jun 22, 2014

The above is not working . I configured the above iRule and assigned it to VS along with enabling stream. I have built a dummy URL on the backened webserver and when i browse this URL , the URL in the address bar remains unchanged

 

i understand Kevin's irule does replace string (e.g. uri) in response from server. it does not affect if you browse the uri directly.

 

Source URL : http://www.myweb.com/secureapp/connect/report_en/REP/XYZ

 

Masked URL : http://www.myweb.com/en/XYZ

 

do you want when browsing http://www.myweb.com/secureapp/connect/report_en/REP/XYZ, url in address bar is changed to http://www.myweb.com/en/XYZ but uri to server is still /secureapp/connect/report_en/REP/XYZ?

 

or does user have to browse http://www.myweb.com/en/XYZ (http://www.myweb.com/secureapp/connect/report_en/REP/XYZ is no not available at all) but bigip changes uri when sending to server to /secureapp/connect/report_en/REP/XYZ?