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Jon_14_147267
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Sep 26, 2018

URL Rewrite Reverse Proxy

Hello,   I'm using the rewrite iRule below to reverse proxy traffic to a server hosted by a third party. This third party hosts a service one of our applications makes a call to.   We need to ...
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volodh_214395
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Sep 30, 2018

Hi,

you are getting error 400 because third party web server is set to use header binding. It expects to receive thirdparty.webservice.com in GET but receives my.externalip.com. Use this iRule to fix the issu -

when HTTP_REQUEST {

HTTP::header replace Host "thirdparty.webservice.com"

}

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    Jon_14_147267
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    Oct 01, 2018

    Thanks.. it's looking like the POST is including a instead of just the URI like the GET. So when the HOST is added on the Post, it seems to be breaking.