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Scott_85950
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Nov 13, 2010

Root Domain Redirect Retaining Query String

Hi, I am looking to redirect, hopefully 301 redirect, from the default domain when called to a new home page location while retaining any appended query in the original URI. I have the following i...
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nitass
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Nov 13, 2010
i a little bit modified rule according to sol9952. pls feel free to revise.

SOL9952: The HTTP::path iRule command may return more information than expected

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/9000/900/sol9952.html 


virtual bar {
   snat automap
   pool foo
   destination 172.28.17.55:80
   ip protocol 6
   rules myredirect
   profiles {
      http {}
      tcp {}
   }
}
rule myredirect {
   when HTTP_REQUEST {
        if { [URI::path [HTTP::path]] eq "/" and [HTTP::query] ne ""} {
                HTTP::redirect "http://[HTTP::host]/guest/en/home.shtml?[HTTP::query]"
        }
}
}



 curl -I http://172.28.17.55
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:28:33 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.59 (rPath)
Last-Modified: Thu, 11 Nov 2010 04:23:21 GMT
ETag: "1315d-5f-5580a040"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 95
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

 curl -I http://172.28.17.55/?s_cid=ThisIsATest
HTTP/1.0 302 Found
Location: http://172.28.17.55/guest/en/home.shtml?s_cid=ThisIsATest
Server: BigIP
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Length: 0