Redirecting HTTP requests for an IAG HTTPS site
Applies To: Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG)
When you create an Whale Communications Intelligent Application Gateway (IAG) 2007 HTTPS trunk, only HTTPS requests that arrive at IAG are handled by the trunk. If you want IAG to automatically redirect HTTP requests to the HTTPS trunk, you can create an additional redirect trunk. Before you create a redirect trunk, note the following:
Make sure that you have already created the HTTPS trunk to which you want to redirect HTTP requests.
Make sure you define all the parameters of the HTTPS Connections trunk before you create the redirect trunk, including definitions you make in the Configuration console after completing the New Trunk Wizard.
If at a later stage you change the IP address or port number of the HTTPS Connections trunk, do one of the following:
Update the IP address/port number manually in the relevant redirect trunk.
Delete the existing redirect trunk and create a new one.
Redirect trunks are not monitored by the IAG Web Monitor.
Sessions in redirect trunks are not calculated in the session count of IAG. When an HTTP session is redirected to HTTPS via a redirect trunk, it is only counted as one HTTPS session.
Creating a redirect trunk
Create a redirect trunk as follows:
To create a redirect trunk
In the Configuration console, in the left navigation tree, right-click HTTP Connections, and then select New Trunk.
In the Create New Trunk Wizard, select Redirect HTTP to HTTPS Trunk, and then click Next.
All HTTPS trunks for which no redirect trunk exists are listed.
Select the HTTPS trunk to which you want to redirect HTTP requests, and then click Finish.
Note
For additional details, click Help in any of the wizard screens.
A new trunk with the same name as the HTTPS trunk you selected is created in the left navigation tree.
HTTP requests that arrive at the external Web site that is defined for this trunk are redirected to the HTTPS trunk you selected in the wizard.