Stealth Redirection or URL Hiding

Understand that the [HTTP::uri] is going to produce a new URI that is transparent to the user. So if the user makes a request for "/news/foo/bar", the server will see "/foo/bar", and the client's address bar will not change. There is a minor typo in the above iRule though. It should actually look like this:

funny thing, everytime I add the line it apends a www.www.abc.com to the front of it..but I dont have a rule adding a www to my test virtual server

I tried to change this(HTTP::uri [string map {"/news" "/"} [HTTP::uri]]) where "/" is "/hi" and it doesnt work.

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    switch -glob [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] {
        "/news*"  {
            pool news.xxx.com-pool
            if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri] equals "/news" } {
                HTTP::uri "/"
            else {
                HTTP::uri [string map {"/news" ""} [HTTP::uri]]
            }
        }
        default {
            pool www.abc.com-pool
        }
    }
 }

The previous version would have mapped "/news/foo/bar" to "//foo/bar" (an extra forward slash).

everytime I add the line it apends a www.www.abc.com to the front of it

I'm not sure what this means.