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Preet_pk
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Feb 05, 2022
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Host redirection not working for second host in iRule

Hi, There is one issue i am facing in redirection - For eg below is the scenerio. test.com  -> https://test.com/redlab/login.html lab.com -> https://lab.com/bluelab/login.html We are using single...
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Daniel_Wolf
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Feb 05, 2022

Hi Preet_pk, 

this iRule will satisfy your requirements:

when HTTP_REQUEST {
    if { [string tolower [HTTP::host][HTTP::path]] equals "domain-alpha.com.com/" } {
        HTTP::respond 301 -version 1.1 noserver Location "https://domain-alpha.com.com/redlab/login.html"
    } elseif { [string tolower [HTTP::host][HTTP::path]] equals "domain-beta.com.com/" } {
        HTTP::respond 301 -version 1.1 noserver Location "https://domain-beta.com.com/bluelab/login.html"
    } else {
      #default action
    }
}
  • The 301 response code indicates that the requested page has been permanently moved to the URL given in the Location header.
  • -version 1.1 will set HTTP/1.1 (otherwise HTTP/1.0 would be used).
  • noserver will prevent that the default server header (configured in HTTP profile, usually BigIP) is returned to the client.

I use HTTP::respond instead of HTTP::redirect, because:
HTTP::respond can use 301 / Moved Permanently
HTTP::redirect will alsways use 302 / Found or Temporary Moved

Hope this helps and happy F5 day
Daniel