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Tom_Thunem_9204
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Oct 12, 2009

URL redirect when URL is lacking a domain name

Hello,     I have a situation where they want to save the user some typing. They want to redirect http://abc to http://abc.com. Haven't been able to find the syntax for this. All of my r...
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hoolio
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Oct 13, 2009
The HTTP::host value is cached, but the update is still done. If you want to see the effect of the change you could either check the server logs or log the value in a later priority HTTP_REQUEST event: 

 
 when HTTP_REQUEST {  
  
    log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: [HTTP::method] request to [HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]"  
  
     Check if host is chargeit-test  
    if { [HTTP::host] eq "chargeit-test" } {  
  
       log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: Replacing host header."  
  
        Replace the Host header  
       HTTP::header replace "Host" "chargeit-test.avnet.com"  
    }  
 }  
 when HTTP_REQUEST priority 501 { 
  
     log local0. "[IP::client_addr]:[TCP::client_port]: (501) [HTTP::method] request to [HTTP::host][HTTP::uri]"  
 }

Aaron