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Dec 19, 2013

Swedish characters in a irule

Hi i need a redirect rule for a swedish url containing the swedish character ä   when HTTP_REQUEST { if { [string tolower [HTTP::uri]] equals "www.xxx.se/berätta" } { HTTP::respond 30...
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Don_Flinspach_1
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Jun 20, 2014

Any time I have to do anything with non-ASCII characters, I will also create a variable that’s a b64decode of a base64-encoded string and perform comparisons against that. Given the prevalence of UTF-8–capable browsers, it’s not unreasonable to expect them to send words in other languages’ character sets anymore.

 

For example, set test_uri_1 [b64decode "YmVyw6R0dGE="]

 

There’s a little front-end work done here, but I’ve had this work regularly.