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Dave_22257
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Oct 25, 2011

URL Redirect

I need to create an irule to redirect certain URI strings to a specific pool on my F5 device. Sound simple enough but I am having issues writing the irule to match the specific URI's.     The u...
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[root@iris:Active] config  b virtual bar list
bvirtual bar {
   translate service enable
   snat automap
   pool foo
   destination 172.28.17.33:any
   ip protocol tcp
   rules myrule
   profiles {
      http {}
      tcp {}
   }
}
[root@iris:Active] config  b rule myrule list
rule myrule {
   when HTTP_REQUEST {
        if {[HTTP::host] contains "xyz.net.au"} {
                switch [getfield [HTTP::host] ":" 2] {
                        "8181" {
                                log local0. "8181"
                        }
                        "8443" {
                                log local0. "8443"
                        }
                        default {
                                log local0. "default"
                        }
                }
        }
}
}

[root@iris:Active] config  curl -I http://xyz.net.au/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:14:17 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.59 (rPath)
Last-Modified: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:31:47 GMT
ETag: "667a-67-cfb682c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 103
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Set-Cookie: testcookie=helloworld
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Oct 25 15:04:03 local/tmm info tmm[4672]: Rule myrule : default

[root@iris:Active] config 
[root@iris:Active] config  curl -I http://xyz.net.au:8181/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:14:32 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.59 (rPath)
Last-Modified: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:31:47 GMT
ETag: "667a-67-cfb682c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 103
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Set-Cookie: testcookie=helloworld
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Oct 25 15:04:17 local/tmm info tmm[4672]: Rule myrule : 8181

[root@iris:Active] config  curl -I http://xyz.net.au:8443/
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:14:45 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.59 (rPath)
Last-Modified: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:31:47 GMT
ETag: "667a-67-cfb682c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 103
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Set-Cookie: testcookie=helloworld
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Oct 25 15:04:30 local/tmm info tmm[4672]: Rule myrule : 8443