But the req.url doesn't seem to have the domain name in it, which is what I want to redirect...

Chris



On 2010/09/14 10:46, Caunter, Stefan wrote:
You need to tell the browser the new location in vcl_error. I have
something similar for mobile redirects.

First in vcl_recv catch the event:

   if( ... some condition ... ) {
                         set req.url = regsub(req.url, "(.*)",
"/mobile\1");
                         error 750 "Moved Temporarily";
                 }

Then handle it in vcl_error:

if (obj.status == 750) {
                 set obj.http.Location = req.url;
                 set obj.status = 302;
                 return(deliver);
}

You can specify obj.status = 301 of course.

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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael
Alger
Sent: September-11-10 5:52 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: regsub in error response

On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 10:12:59AM -0700, Chris Hecker wrote:

I'd like to do a 301 from a.com to b.com, but preserving the whole
url,  but I can't figure out how to do it.  This doesn't work to
send it to  vcl_error:

  error 751 regsub(req.url,"a.com","b.com");

The regsub isn't allowed there.  Can I stuff it in a header that I
can  get in vcl_error?

You probably can. What I do for redirects is to rewrite the req.url
and then use that in the error statement, i.e.

   set req.url = regsub (req.url, "rewritefrom", "rewriteto");
   error 751 req.url;

For your particular case where you don't actually want to rewrite
the URL but instead only change the host part of it, I would do
something like:

   if (req.url ~ "(?i)^/vanitypath")
   {
     set req.url = "http://b.com"; req.url;
     error 751 req.url;
   }

Note that the host isn't present in req.url (use req.http.Host for
that) - so in the first example, "rewriteto" should start with a
full protocol specification (http://...";).

Most browsers work fine if they're told to redirect to /foo, but I
don't really like relying on it.

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