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Christian_Meiss
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Aug 05, 2016

simulate special mod_proxy behaviour

Hi folk, I can reproduce the following ProxyPass /foo http://host.domain.tld/foo with if {[HTTP::uri] eq "/foo"}{ pool target_pool } But i'm not able to do this: ...
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Kai_Wilke's avatar
Kai_Wilke
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Aug 05, 2016

Hi Christian,

to translate the 

[HTTP::uri]
while forwarding the request to your internal server, you could use the rather simple iRule below. The 
[string range]
command will simply strip the first four chars (e.g. 
/foo
) from the original URI and substitute the internal path (e.g. 
/bar
) into a new 
[HTTP::uri]
value.

if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] starts_with "/foo" } then {
        HTTP::uri "/bar[string range [HTTP::uri] 4 end]"
        pool bar_pool
}

But depending on your application requirements, you may also need to translate 

[HTTP::header value Referer]
values on each request and untranslate 
[HTTP::header value Location]
, 
[HTTP::header value Content-Location]
, 
[HTTP::cookie domain]
, 
[HTTP::cookie path]
and even embeded links in 
[HTTP::payload]
on each response to reflect the external URI namespace.

Note: Personally I always try to avoid hostname and path translation as much as possible. It makes stuff more complex and prone to errors...

I'd like to encourage you to take a look to the existing ProxyPass iRule on CodeShare. It has a really great functionality and provides most of the functionality of the original Apache ProxyPass module.

https://devcentral.f5.com/codeshare/proxypass-v10-v11

Cheers, Kai