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BDunbar_8799
Feb 24, 2011Nimbostratus
URL Forward with a POST change
Got a ping from one of our technical project managers - he wanted to know if the F5 LTM could do URL forwarding, with a twist.
'Do you know if the F5 can do URL forwarding service, can easily be updated via HTTP POST or similar method? We've got (redacted) that changes it's URL fairly often, need to have an unchanging URL that refers to the changing URL, have the change from one to the next happen automatically.'
I know there are URL forwarding services, but digging up one that allows an update automatically was a bit of a poser. And if we can do it with the F5 and bring it in house, that would be super-keen.
- hooleylistCirrostratusIf I understand the scenario, I think you can do something like this with an iRule.
- BDunbar_8799NimbostratusDo you want to present one URL externally but have the hostname and/or URI changed based on some backend web application's changes?
- Colin_Walker_12Historic F5 AccountIf this is going to be based solely on which applications are online at any given time, this actually gets much easier. You could set up monitors on each of the servers along with some simple iRule logic. If server1 is up, send request to service1.org.com, else if server 2 is up, send request to service2.org.com, etc.
- JRahmAdminJoe/Colin discuss in Post of the Week: http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/dctv/archive/2011/02/25/post-of-the-week-dynamic-url-forwarding.aspx Click Here
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