ACE response rewrite of location header 301/302 redirects from web

[shbharat]

This is for a situation when :

Customer has implemented a solution on a Cisco ACE LB, which receives requests from the internet for https://website1.com/path, and proxies these to https://website2.com/path

When the server replies with 301/302 redirects. These come back from the server with a location field of https://website2.com/path2 and this is sent to the client browser unchecked.

This cause issues for the customer. As the next request comes with https://website2.com/path2

Resolution :

using the below commands will fix the issue.

header rewrite response host header-value "(.*)https://website2\.com(.*)" replace "%1https://website1.com%2"

You should modify the location header if it is 301/302.

Something like below:

header rewrite response location header-value https://website2[.]com(.*)" replace "%1https://website1.com%2"