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Julian-EvoTek_2
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Mar 31, 2017

URI Masking in order to drop %20

Sharepoint admins thought it would be a good idea to add spaces to uri and after applying a patch form MS it broke the site. Sharepoint server no longer supports spaces. Concern is that if they fix sharepoint documents with hard links will fail. I was thinking that maybe we could use URI masking to drop the space (%20) from the server. I don't think the stream profile is the best way and without knowing every uri to issue redirects I think this is the best method but i'm open to suggestions.

 

Today: abc.com/global design/drawing.vsd - is sent to server as abc.com/global%20design/drawing.vsd This should now be sent to the server as: abc.com/globaldesign/drawing.vsd

 

So would something like this work?

 

when HTTP_REQUEST { if { [HTTP::uri] contains " " } { HTTP::uri "" } }

 

application delivery
iRules
LTM

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  • Niels_van_Sluis's avatar
    Niels_van_Sluis
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    Mar 31, 2017

    No, this would not work. Your iRule will set the HTTP::uri to nothing. Try something like this:

    when HTTP_REQUEST {
    set uri [HTTP::uri]
    set new_uri [string map {"%20" ""} $uri]
    log local0. "$uri -> $new_uri"
    HTTP::uri $new_uri
}