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Dishant_298426's avatar
Dishant_298426
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Dec 09, 2016

URL Redirection IRule

Can i get the Irule for redirection of https://www.pitneybowes.us/shop/ink-and-supplies/postage-meter-ink-and-supplies/for-dm100i-dm125-dm225/en-us/storeus to https://www.pitneybowes.us/shop/in...
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  • Dvirus_297774's avatar
    Dvirus_297774
    Dec 09, 2016

    Hi Dishant, you can try this:

    (Thanks to Stanislas - using respond, relative path and not use string to lower in case its not necessary)

      when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { (([string tolower [HTTP::host]] contains "www.pitneybowes.us") and ([HTTP::uri] equals "/shop/ink-and-supplies/postage-meter-ink-and-supplies/for-dm100i-dm125-dm225/en-us/storeus")) {
        HTTP::respond 301 noserver Location "/shop/ink-and-supplies/postage-meter-ink-supplies/for-dm-series/en-us/storeus"
    } 
}
Dvirus_297774's avatar
Dvirus_297774
Icon for Altocumulus rankAltocumulus

Hi Dishant, you can try this:

(Thanks to Stanislas - using respond, relative path and not use string to lower in case its not necessary)

  when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { (([string tolower [HTTP::host]] contains "www.pitneybowes.us") and ([HTTP::uri] equals "/shop/ink-and-supplies/postage-meter-ink-and-supplies/for-dm100i-dm125-dm225/en-us/storeus")) {
        HTTP::respond 301 noserver Location "/shop/ink-and-supplies/postage-meter-ink-supplies/for-dm-series/en-us/storeus"
    } 
}
Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
Stanislas_Piro2
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Dec 10, 2016

Hi,

 

Please never include protocol and hostname in HTTP redirect if target service is the same as source service...

 

As the source URL is hosted on hostname and service is HTTPS, redirect to relative URL and not absolute.

 

Most of F5 rewrite issues are caused because developers still insert full path instead of relative path when it is useless.

 

And the redirect with 301 response code is a better solution than 302 (default with HTTP::redirect) to redirect permanently an URL to another.

 

So, replace the line

 

HTTP::redirect "https://www.pitneybowes.us/shop/ink-and-supplies/postage-meter-ink-supplies/for-dm-series/en-us/storeus"

by

 

HTTP::respond 301 noserver Location "/shop/ink-and-supplies/postage-meter-ink-supplies/for-dm-series/en-us/storeus"