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Chris_123510
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Sep 17, 2013

Simple URL redirect iRule

I am still very new to iRules, and I am trying to get the code correct for a simple URL redirect. The VS already has an iRule that will redirect traffic from port 80 to 443. Plus, I will need it to w...
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Stanislas_Piro2
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Apr 30, 2017

Hi,

 

In your last link, there are 3 possible URI format:

 

  • Absolute URI including hostname and protocol
  • relative URI with absolute path (starting with /)
  • other relative URI (path of current URI is used to evaluate path of redirect)

I agree with you and the article author about problems with last solution.

 

but I think relative URI with absolute path doesn't cause such issues and solve much more issues:

 

  • web server behind a reverse proxy with SSL offload
  • web server behind a reverse proxy with internal hostname
  • migration of web server name (new company name)

and even F5 uses relative URI in 302 redirect in APM (redirect to /my.policy, /vdesk/hangup.php3, landing URI, ...)