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Shawn_Salyers_8
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Apr 27, 2011

URI Redirect with 301

Hello and thank you for the help....     I have a need to take the incoming request and replace portions of the URI and redirect to ta different pool, which is currently working with the follow...
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hooleylist
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Apr 27, 2011
You can change from HTTP::uri to HTTP::respond 301 Location $new_location. If you're using string map to dynamically set the new location, you can use this:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/http__respond

 

 

HTTP::respond 301 Location [string map {/idea-ub/sections/the-world/videos /videos} [HTTP::path]][HTTP::query]

 

 

Also, you could use a switch statement to more efficiently check the requested URI:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/default.aspx/iRules/switch

 

 

Aaron