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will_lee_113506
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Mar 22, 2005

Url character length limitation?

I'm in process of converting our v4.5.10 rules to v9 syntax. Our original scripts had workarounds to get around the 63/64 character limit on URIs. I believe that was in strict compliance with RFC or some standards. Anways an example of our workaround is -

 

 

if (getfield(http_uri, "/", 3) matches_regex "[Se][Ee][Rr][Vv][Ll][Ee][Tt]") {

 

if (getfield(http_uri, "/", 4) matches_regex "[Ss][Tt][Oo][Rr][Ee]") {

 

if (getfield(http_uri, "/", 5) matches_regex "[Ss][Tt][Oo][Rr][Ee]\?") {

 

use pool Store-Pool

 

 

 

Basically it looking for something that fits the pattern http://host/Servlet/Store/Store

 

 

Is there the same URI length restrictions in v9 or can I simply express the regex portion as one entire string?

 

 

thx

 

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  • drteeth_127330's avatar
    drteeth_127330
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    Mar 22, 2005
    No, there is no URI length limit in BIG-IP 9.x. Additionally, there are more efficient ways to perform case-insensitive comparisons. I don't think you need the regex, so you could do something like this: 

     
 if {[string compare -nocase -length 21 [HTTP::uri] "/servlet/store/store?"] == 0} { 
     pool Store-Pool 
 }