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Yaniv_93956
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Jan 21, 2013

Using F5 as a proxy between two websites

  Hello Devcentral,   I’m trying to set an IRule to act as a proxy between two websites without changing the URL in the user’s browser.   When user goes to   https://www.site1.com/test ...
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nitass
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Jan 21, 2013
if both sites are managed by bigip, you may use virtual command instead.

e.g. 

[root@ve10:Active] config  b virtual bar1 list
virtual bar1 {
   destination 172.28.19.252:80
   ip protocol 6
   rules myrule
   profiles {
      http {}
      tcp {}
   }
}
[root@ve10:Active] config  b rule myrule list
rule myrule {
   when HTTP_REQUEST {
  if { [HTTP::uri] starts_with "/test" } {
    HTTP::header replace Host "www.site2.com"
    virtual bar2
  }
}
}
[root@ve10:Active] config  b virtual bar2 list
virtual bar2 {
   snat automap
   pool foo
   destination 1.1.1.1:80
   ip protocol 6
}
[root@ve10:Active] config  b pool foo list
pool foo {
   members 200.200.200.101:80 {}
}

[root@ve10:Active] config  ssldump -Aed -nni 0.0 port 80
New TCP connection 1: 172.28.19.251(47230) <-> 172.28.19.252(80)
1358775742.2911 (0.0010)  C>S
---------------------------------------------------------------
GET /test/something HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.15.5 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
Accept: */*
Host: www.site1.com

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New TCP connection 2: 172.28.19.251(47230) <-> 1.1.1.1(80)
1358775742.2913 (0.0000)  C>S
---------------------------------------------------------------
GET /test/something HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.15.5 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
Accept: */*
Host: www.site2.com

---------------------------------------------------------------

New TCP connection 3: 200.200.200.253(47230) <-> 200.200.200.101(80)
1358775742.2931 (0.0017)  C>S
---------------------------------------------------------------
GET /test/something HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: curl/7.15.5 (i686-redhat-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.15.5 OpenSSL/0.9.8b zlib/1.2.3 libidn/0.6.5
Accept: */*
Host: www.site2.com

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