URL rewrite and dropping out of SSL

paul.matthews · ‎08-05-2004

I am trying to get my head around URL rewrite. The way I understand it is that it only has any effect with a 300 series redirect - am I right?

If the server as part of a page contains a link (either as part of the page, eg an image, or as a link to hop elsewhere) that will NOT be affected by urlrewrite?

similarly if a web site contains some Java, and that script has a URL, that will be unaffected by URL rewrite?

Essentially, if a server has links of the form "/content/whatever" it will stay within SSL, but if the link is "http://server/content/whatever" it will drop out - am I right with that?

Obvious next question is there anything I can do at the CSS?

Thanks,

Paul.

Gilles Dufour · ‎08-07-2004

Paul,

you got it right for everything.

Currently there is no way to rewrite url contained in a webpage or jave applet with the CSS SSL Module.

The SCA can rewrite url in a webpage, still no java.

Regards,

Gilles

paul.matthews · ‎08-07-2004

OK, Thanks very much for the confirmation.

Would be a useful feature though - it can be awkward explaining to a customer that they need to get another vendor to change the URL in an entire application...

Paul.

Gilles Dufour · ‎08-07-2004

Paul,

The SCA is a cisco product.

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/contnetw/ps2083/ps2082/index.html

Regards,

Gilles.

paul.matthews · ‎08-08-2004

I'm aware of the SCA, unfortunately this query is a result of a project that is alerady in so no chance of budget for a hardware redesign...

aaron.east · ‎06-16-2006

SCA is not a supported product anymore. Why have you not bothered to sort out CSS with the same funcationality as the SCA????

Comments on your web presence:

Try and find the pre-sales UK phone number, I dare you.

Why did you make me go through 4 forms to register? I wanted to respond to a message - perhaps you could give the option so that I am not forced to decide whether I want your newsletters though I did want to register for them.

Gilles Dufour · ‎06-16-2006

http://www.cisco.co.uk/

the phone number is on the first page.

Website that are correctly programmed do not need the rewrite feature. Very few customers actually requested it and most of them understood it was in their interest to rework the website to avoid the need of this feature.

The SCA could do the rewrite but at the cost of performance.

For those reasons, we decided not to implement the feature on the CSS, the SSLM and the new ACE module.

Gilles.