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Gortguy_105156
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Aug 31, 2011

Strange issue with "matches_regex" and case sensitivity

I'm a relative newbie to iRules, so please don't laugh if this is too simplistic.     I also have two environments, call them primary and test. I use essentially the same rule (copy/paste) for t...
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Aug 31, 2011
There is a good write-up that covers case-sensitivity in the URL here: http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-html40-970708/htmlweb.html

 

 

As a general rule of thumb you should always do your compare with your data in a "known" state, so doing a string tolower will always help and make sure that the compare works.

 

 

If you change this line to this, it should resolve your problem:

 

if {[string tolower [HTTP::uri]] matches_regex "/myuristring" } {

 

 

What operating systems do each over your environments run on? I ask because for the most part IIS hosted Websites are case insensitive, but UNIX hosted applications are case sensitive.
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