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Don_22992
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Apr 02, 2008

stubborn 4xx/5xx Error Handler

I am sure this is simple....     I have the following iRule to redirect 4xx & 5xx errors to a page on a backend server. It works great - once I have sucessfully connected to the site once! What ...
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Apr 04, 2008
Aaron,

 

 

The resultant behavior of a redirect for an image performs as desired; just may not be very clean. It actually mirrors the processing of an existing process and will be cleaned up in a subsequent revision of the rule/configuration. However, the fact that it was a request for an image at the root is irrelevant. Replacing "/don.jpg" with "/my.jsp", "begin.do", or "/mystuff/index.html" also results in the same behavior.

 

 

I do not know WHY or even IF the application responds with a 500 when the root page contains a request for an image.

 

 

Lets try with https::/my.domain.com/mystuff/index.html (which most assuredly does not exist and causes a 404 error)

 

 

Using this as my request, the following behavior is observed:

 

1. Bypassing the F5 entirely results in a default 404 error page returned.

 

2. Removing this iRule results in a default 404 error page returned.

 

3. WITH the irule, the browser reports page canot be displayed.

 

 

This seems to be the heart of the problem.

 

 

Don