BIG-IP Solutions: URL Redirect Deep Dive
Check out our "BIG-IP Solutions" series where we will dive into all kinds of cool features related to the BIG-IP. In this edition, I'll take a deeper look at URL redirects using policies instead of ...
Published Oct 30, 2018
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Great question @f5_rock! You can't do a 301 directly with the policy, but it is possible to reuse parts of the path from the original request in the redirect by using a tcl expression in your policy like this:
"tcl:[string map {/path1/ /} [HTTP::uri]]"
You can also call an iRule from policy to do the 301. Yes, this obviates the need for a policy if that's the only function, but if your policy has more functionality than that and you want to keep all the flow logic in the policy, a combo approach is a nice option. Details for 301 redirect in a comment on this thread: