topic URL redirection sk on R80.10 in Firewall and Security Management

URL redirection sk on R80.10

Jeroen_Demets — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 07:15:12 GMT

Hi,

has anyone used sk40348 on R80.10 yet? It's about URL redirection which we used for http://owa.company.com towards https://owa.company.com/owa

We used this in a R77.30 gateway and it worked. Now we upgraded this gateway to R80.10 and this redirection no longer works. At another site we also have R80.10 and tried to configure redirection for a new setup and it also fails. Has this been tested on R80.10 yet?

Kind regards,

Re: URL redirection sk on R80.10

PhoneBoy — Mon, 18 Sep 2017 16:01:11 GMT

This feature relies on the HTTP Security Server, which is largely been deprecated.

I do not believe this will work on R80.x gateways.

Re: URL redirection sk on R80.10

Dmitry_Yagudaev — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 12:04:44 GMT

Jeroen hi,

Do you see any related errors in SmartLog?

Re: URL redirection sk on R80.10

Jeroen_Demets — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:00:45 GMT

I logged a ticket for this and they immediately said the same: "deprecated feature" and won't work on R80.

I asked for a workaround but there isn't really one other than doing a port nat and changing http towards https. That helps but is still harder for endusers as they still have to type /owa at the end of the URL.

This URL redirect feature was pretty handy but now it's over

Re: URL redirection sk on R80.10

Jeroen_Demets — Mon, 25 Sep 2017 14:01:24 GMT

no errors to be seen, it just "doesn't work anymore"

Re: URL redirection sk on R80.10

Dilian_Chernev — Fri, 29 Sep 2017 07:46:51 GMT

You could try the Reverse proxy feature in R77.30/R80.10 - sk110348

Re: URL redirection sk on R80.10

Jeroen_Demets — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 07:24:49 GMT

Tnx, that does looks good if you have the mobile access license.

I don't have the time to try it out now but might in the future.

Re: URL redirection sk on R80.10

Cristian_Cortes — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 15:50:18 GMT

Why deprecate such useful feature as url redirect? bad idea to upgrade R80.10. Hard to understand

Re: URL redirection sk on R80.10

PhoneBoy — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 16:35:08 GMT

The capability is still there, it's just the mechanism for doing so is different than documented in the SK.

While I haven't personally tried this, the following should work:

Create a custom Application with the URL in question
Create a rule for that application that says block with a custom UserCheck action that redirects to the desired URL.