Striping www from the URL

Hello,

 

 

I guess I'll start by explaining the desired result. The virtual server will be listening on port 443, and will have an SSL certificate of *.company.com. Given that a wildcard SSL cert will only terminate back one level (based on RFC2818), I need to be able to re-write or re-direct the following:

 

 

https://www.customer1.company.com to https://customer1.company.com before SSL termination takes place. The idea is that the customer will not be presented with the SSL mismatch error.

 

 

So now, i ask, can i do that? and if so, how?

 

 

I was thinking something like, but i don't know if it will work, or the correct syntax:

 

 

when HTTP_REQUEST {

 

if {[HTTP::host] starts_with "www."} {

 

variable = everything_after_www.

 

redirect to "https://variable[HTTP::uri]"

 

}

 

}

 

 

Thanks in advance.