Citrix Netscaler Rewrite Issue

Fri Jun 14 16:19:11 UTC 2013

On 14 June 2013 16:51, Jason Faraone <JFaraone at paulo.com> wrote:
> I've been sitting here frustrated for a bit this morning so hopefully someone here can shed some light...
>
> I have a Citrix Netscaler appliance (v10.0) and I would like to rewrite a URL - essentially when someone visits www.example.com<http://www.example.com>, I would like to redirect them to www.example.com/pls/apex/f?p=103:1<http://www.example.com/pls/apex/f?p=103:1>
>
> This seems to work well enough until I get to the question mark, at which point things fall  apart.
>
> "The requested URL /pls/apex/f was not found on this server."

I don't think the problem is with the Netscaler or your escaping; I
think that whatever's serving www.example.com doesn't have a page for
/pls/apex/f and is quite correctly telling you this.

The part after the question mark is called the "query string", and
it's (usually) used to communicate parameters to a page - a page which
must already exist (except in very specific circumstances), without
the query string.

What happens if you "curl -v www.example.com"? Do you see the 30[23]
redirect coming back? If so, it's a server-side problem and not an
issue with the appliance.

Jonathan
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