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Puli
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Jul 27, 2010

Traversing the URL and matching it with a datagroup

Hi All,   i have a requirement and wondering if you can help me out.     Lets say we have a url:   www.abc.com/aa/bb/cc/dd/ee   and my datagroup has entries for re-directs   aa zz ...
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hoolio
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Jul 27, 2010
Hi Puli,

 

 

Conceptually this could be done using various string functions (most likely URI::path or possibly split and/or scan) and the class command to check the datagroup. However, I'd be concerned about the possible resource utilization and latency added by doing recursive operations.

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/class

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/uri__path

 

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/split.htm

 

http://www.tcl.tk/man/tcl8.4/TclCmd/scan.htm

 

 

You might try building a simple test rule and do some performance testing of it under load while using timing to record the results:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/timing

 

 

Aaron