Forum Discussion

Eric_Frankenfie's avatar
Eric_Frankenfie
Icon for Nimbostratus rankNimbostratus
12 years ago

URI Rewrite

I have a developer who is working a new version of an application and they would like to perform the following URI rewrite on the F5 so they don't have to deploy duplicate code to 100+ virtual direct...
application delivery
devops
irules
uri rewriting
Joe_Pruitt's avatar
Joe_Pruitt
12 years ago

Assuming you know the vendor name variable, you can do something like this:

set vendor "vendorName";   assign from header or some other input
if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/${vendor}?" } {
  HTTP::uri [string map [list "/${vendor}?" "?${vendor}&"] [HTTP::uri]]
}

If you want to look for all patterns and of "/?" and replace it, you can do so with something like this

if { ([HTTP::uri] starts_with "/") && ([HTTP::uri] contains "?") } {
   Find the index of the "?" character
  set idx [string first "?" [HTTP::uri]]
   extract the string from index 1 up to the character before the "?"
  set site [string range [HTTP::uri] 1 [expr $idx - 1]]
   Modify the URI with the string replacement.
  HTTP::uri [string map [list "/${site}?" "?${site}&"] [HTTP::uri]]
}

Keep in mind that this isn't bulletproof. So make sure the logic fits for all of your URLs.

-Joe