URL Rewrite without Redirect

 

...But this won't work I think, because the Client would "see" the change... there is an reconnect happening, or am I wrong? ....

 

 

 

 

This is similar to how we do it.

 

The client does not see the change.

 

 

The client types in https://www.mysite.com

 

The BigIP answers with an SSL Certificate and SSL Connection

 

The iRule sees the Host header as "www.mysite.com"

 

The iRule issues the command "pool mysite.com_pool"

 

 

In the "mysite.com_pool" is a set of nodes:

 

server1.mysite.com:55011

 

server1.mysite.com:55012

 

server2.mysite.com:23543

 

server3.mysite.com:4002

 

 

 

the "pool" command causes the request to get forwarded to one of the 4 nodes in the mysite.com_pool

 

The chosen node receives the request, processes it, and sends it back to the BigIP.

 

The BigIP forwards the request back to the original user.

 

 

Also in this scenerio, the web server sees the request as coming from the original web user, and not from the BigIP. In other words, the Access logs show the web user's IP address for the request (not the BigIP IP address).

 

 

-RG