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tfs128
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Jun 09, 2020

URI rewrite with wildcard

Working on setting up an irule and have been using this post for reference.

 

Request will be coming in as https://site.domain.com/text1/text2/text3/wildcard/text4, where the wildcard can be any app name and the other values are constant.

 

Then we need to rewrite the uri to be /text5/text6/text7/wildcard/text4. We'll be keeping the "/wildcard/text4" part of the uri but the rest will be changing. So the request will look like https://site.domain.com/text5/text6/text7/wildcard/text4

Then send it to a different pool.

 

Have come up the following, though the skip_count was confusing me a bit. I assume I don't want any characters to be skipped when pulling in the wildcard value. I saw that regex is discouraged due to cpu, so not sure if there's a better way to accomplish this.

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

  if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] matches_regex "(\/text1\/text2\/text3).*(\/text4)" } {

    set filter [findstr [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] "/text1/text2/text3/" 0 "/text4"]

    set newuri [string map "/text5/text6/text7/$filter/text4" [string tolower [HTTP::uri]]]

    HTTP::uri $newuri

    pool pool1

  }

}

 

Thanks for any assistance.

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  • cjunior's avatar
    cjunior
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    Jun 09, 2020

    Hello,

    Is that URI a fixed one with one wildcard piece?

    If so, I would do this way:

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    # Checks whether the path starts with /text1/text2/text3 and ends with /text4
    if {  [string match -nocase {/text1/text2/text3/*/text4} [HTTP::path]] } {
        # Put /text5/text6/text7, append original URI from 18 char to end (Skip the starts length from /text1/text2/text3)
        HTTP::uri "/text5/text6/text7[string range [HTTP::uri] 18 end]"
        pool pool1
    }
}

    Regards

    • tfs128's avatar
      tfs128
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      Jun 09, 2020

      Correct, only the wildcard can vary. It will always come in starting with /text1/text2/text3 which I'll need to change into /text5/text6/text7. The /wildcard/text4 will always end the URI.