f5 URL redirection

Hi,

/ is not valid character in HTTP Host header. how do you try condition ([string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "abc/") ?

Because some of the URL's work ok when I check for "abc/" in the host while some work with only "abc". this is a strange behavior that I have never seen before. looks like client is passing different host for different URL's. So the condition is if client simply enters in the url , they should get redirected to http://abc.xyz.com or [HTTP::uri] they should get redirected to http://abc.xyz.com/[HTTP::uri].

What is the best way to redirect the host and keeping the URI?

What you have should work for all valid (according to RFC) URL. I'd drop any request with a / in the Host headers

if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "abc" } {
    HTTP::respond 301 Location "http://abc.xyz.com[HTTP::uri]" 
    return
} elseif { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] ends_with "/" } {
    Host headers do not contain /
   HTTP::respond 400 content "Bad Request - host header"
   return
}

Thanks for the feedback everyone.

The issue I'm seeing is since xyz.com is internal domain and complete URL of the app is abc.xyz.com/HTTP::uri. so some users prefer to type only and the app team wants that whenever a user types it should get redirected to http://abc.xyz.com. because otherwise the application will break.

Now, when i set redirect like this:

if { [string tolower [HTTP::host]] equals "abc" { HTTP::redirect "http://abc.xyz.com[HTTP::uri]" }

Some URL's work while some don't

for example: gets redirected to http://abc.xyz.com/HTTP::uri but gets redirected to http//abc/ and not http://abc.xyz.com

Any suggestion, could it be server issue?

Thanks in advance.

F5 in between client and server, if a request is sent to F5 and match condition, it is handled by the irule before being sent to the server.

each time, you post only a part of the irule, is there any other code in the irule with redirect action?

How do you check redirect? with Firebug tool, with curl?

Stan

Hi,yes, there is other code in the iRule but not related to redirect. this is the only code for redirect. Some URL's work without redirect but if I put this redirect condition the url's that were not working started to work and those were working before,failed with this redirect.

I'm using IE inbuilt tool (F12 developer tool) to see what status I'm getting. I see aborted in the tool and page cannot be displayed.

you may have tcl error in Local Traffic Logs (or /var/log/ltm)

please add return command after each HTTP::redirect command to prevent errors.

thanks I will try it and let you know.