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Jason_Johnson_4
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Aug 24, 2007

Redirect Rule Help

I am using the BigIP to just redirect. My users will in the browser put http://abc-abc.abc.com my redirect states

 

redirect to "http://xyc/xyc/%u"

 

so in the Users window they are now seeing this link.

 

 

my question is can I make it so the user does NOT see that redirect link and they only see

 

 

http://abc-abc.abc.com

 

 

any help will be much appreciated.

 

 

thanks

 

 

J

 

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  • hooleylist's avatar
    hooleylist
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    Aug 29, 2007
    As you found, if you send a 302 redirect back to the browser, the browser will make a request to the resource and update the address bar.

     

     

    To avoid the redirect and rewrite the requested URI on the BIG-IP you would need to use 9.x iRules. Rewriting the URI isn't possible in 4.x iRules.

     

     

    If your BIG-IP is a supported platform and has an F5 support contract, you could upgrade to 9.x.

     

     

    Aaron