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Merlin_kv_17750
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Jun 17, 2015
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Redirect without path rewriting

Hello,

 

A company wants to use local link accessing public resource, but after redirect url path shouldn't change to external and stay local. Another words, it is possible dynamically rewrite public url into local, so users work with remote site as with local?

 

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  • Hannes_Rapp_162's avatar
    Hannes_Rapp_162
    Jun 17, 2015

    Yep, it can be done 

    when HTTP_REQUEST {

  if { ( [HTTP::host] == "fqdn.clientside.int" ) && ( [HTTP::path] == "/" ) }{
    HTTP::host "www.foo.com"  Rewrite the HTTP Host header value, before routing the request to a pool-member.
    HTTP::path "/blabla"  Rewrite the request path (Use if path masking is needed).
  }
}

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  • Hannes_Rapp's avatar
    Hannes_Rapp
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    Jun 17, 2015

    Yep, it can be done 

    when HTTP_REQUEST {

  if { ( [HTTP::host] == "fqdn.clientside.int" ) && ( [HTTP::path] == "/" ) }{
    HTTP::host "www.foo.com"  Rewrite the HTTP Host header value, before routing the request to a pool-member.
    HTTP::path "/blabla"  Rewrite the request path (Use if path masking is needed).
  }
}
    • Hannes_Rapp's avatar
      Hannes_Rapp
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      Jun 17, 2015
      This solution is a feasible option if the public webside is an applet, or a HTML website with relative hyperlinks only. If it's a HTML website which includes full links (containing original Host value), it will not be enough.
  • Hannes_Rapp_162's avatar
    Hannes_Rapp_162
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    Jun 17, 2015

    Yep, it can be done 

    when HTTP_REQUEST {

  if { ( [HTTP::host] == "fqdn.clientside.int" ) && ( [HTTP::path] == "/" ) }{
    HTTP::host "www.foo.com"  Rewrite the HTTP Host header value, before routing the request to a pool-member.
    HTTP::path "/blabla"  Rewrite the request path (Use if path masking is needed).
  }
}
    • Hannes_Rapp_162's avatar
      Hannes_Rapp_162
      Icon for Nacreous rankNacreous
      Jun 17, 2015
      This solution is a feasible option if the public webside is an applet, or a HTML website with relative hyperlinks only. If it's a HTML website which includes full links (containing original Host value), it will not be enough.