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risgro_77522
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May 11, 2015

URL needs to be in certain case letters

Hello, In the URL/application, "WebCenter" is case-sensitive. So if a client hits: https://qweb.sys.com/webcenter/default or https://qweb.sys.com/Webcenter/default or https://qweb.s...
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Arie
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May 11, 2015

Am I correct to assume that the origin web server needs to receive the request in the proper case, but that it doesn't really matter from a client-perspective?

 

If so, I would recommend re-writing the URI regardless of the case of the request. Redirecting does the trick, but it requires another request (i.e. increased overhead) and isn't as clean as a re-rewrite in my opinion. Something like this should do the trick if you want to re-write the request transparently:

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

    if { [string tolower [HTTP::path]] starts_with "/webcenter/" } {

        HTTP::uri "[string map -nocase { "/webcenter/" "/WebCenter/" } [HTTP::path]]"

    }

}

(Note - I haven't tested the above code so I hope I didn't make any typos/omissions.)