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stheron_82150
Nimbostratus
NimbostratusSuppressing URI content shown in a browser
Great forum with fantastic advice ! - Is there a way to suppress a portion of the URI in a client browser using an iRule ?
Instead of the user seeing :
https://www.myapplication.com/solutions/Documents/Preview.aspx?ldUid=2db3deae-4e91-df11-9GG72-001cc448da6a&ru=%2Fatlas%2FDocuments%2FBrowseDocuments.aspx%3FfUid%3Dfc2b8838-4e91-df11-9372-001cc448da6a%26PageNumber%3D0
URI components are "hidden" by an iRule and the user only sees:
https://www.myapplication.com/Preview.aspx
The application however still need the original post/get to work - I just want to hide it at the presentation layer.
hoolioCirrostratus
Hi,
Welcome. Glad you find the forums useful.
Can you provide a bit more background on what you're trying to accomplish and why?
Do you always want /preview.aspx to be rewritten to a static string of /solutions/Documents/Preview.aspx?ldUid=2db3deae-4e91-df11-9GG72-001cc448da6a&ru=%2Fatlas%2FDocuments%2FBrowseDocuments.aspx%3FfUid%3Dfc2b8838-4e91-df11-9372-001cc448da6a%26PageNumber%3D0?
If so, you could use a simple iRule to do this. If it's more dynamic than that, chances are it won't be practical to implement in an iRule. Here are a couple of related posts:
http://devcentral.f5.com/Forums/tabid/1082223/asg/50/showtab/groupforums/aff/5/aft/27788/afv/topic/Default.aspx
http://devcentral.f5.com/Forums/tabid/1082223/asg/50/showtab/groupforums/aff/16/aft/22378/afv/topic/Default.aspx
Aaron
stheron_82150The URI will constantly change so it looks from your previous posts that either an encryption iRule (or better include this in the app code) or stream(?) functionality could be a solution ?
The goal is just to show the user a simplified URI in the browser instead of a very long one for cosmetic reasons. 99% of the application functionality is controlled by Java controls on the page.- hoolioIf you just want to publish short, user-friendly URIs and have LTM rewrite them to the full URI, you could use a datagroup which maps each short URI to the long one. For 9.x, you'd define the source and target on a single line using a space as a separator in a string datagroup. You could then use findclass to search for the requested URI and rewrite it to the corresponding long URI. For 10.x, you could use the new name/value pairs in a string datagroup and the class command to look up the value. Here are the wiki pages for these commands:
http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/class
http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/findclass
Aaron - stheron_82150
I don't think that will work in our environment since we will have tens of millions of mappings to include, but I'll read up on your recommendations.
Thanks !