Suppressing URI content shown in a browser

Hi,

 

 

Welcome. Glad you find the forums useful.

 

 

Can you provide a bit more background on what you're trying to accomplish and why?

 

 

Do you always want /preview.aspx to be rewritten to a static string of /solutions/Documents/Preview.aspx?ldUid=2db3deae-4e91-df11-9GG72-001cc448da6a&ru=%2Fatlas%2FDocuments%2FBrowseDocuments.aspx%3FfUid%3Dfc2b8838-4e91-df11-9372-001cc448da6a%26PageNumber%3D0?

 

 

If so, you could use a simple iRule to do this. If it's more dynamic than that, chances are it won't be practical to implement in an iRule. Here are a couple of related posts:

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Forums/tabid/1082223/asg/50/showtab/groupforums/aff/5/aft/27788/afv/topic/Default.aspx

 

 

http://devcentral.f5.com/Forums/tabid/1082223/asg/50/showtab/groupforums/aff/16/aft/22378/afv/topic/Default.aspx

 

 

Aaron

The URI will constantly change so it looks from your previous posts that either an encryption iRule (or better include this in the app code) or stream(?) functionality could be a solution ?

 

 

The goal is just to show the user a simplified URI in the browser instead of a very long one for cosmetic reasons. 99% of the application functionality is controlled by Java controls on the page.

 

 

If you just want to publish short, user-friendly URIs and have LTM rewrite them to the full URI, you could use a datagroup which maps each short URI to the long one. For 9.x, you'd define the source and target on a single line using a space as a separator in a string datagroup. You could then use findclass to search for the requested URI and rewrite it to the corresponding long URI. For 10.x, you could use the new name/value pairs in a string datagroup and the class command to look up the value. Here are the wiki pages for these commands:

 

 

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

 

 

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

 

 

Aaron

I don't think that will work in our environment since we will have tens of millions of mappings to include, but I'll read up on your recommendations.

 

 

Thanks !