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Hi team,

Just a quick message to advertise about a specific aFlex adaptation I had to do.
The actual iR**le is defined as following:

when HTTP\_REQUEST \{
        set url [string tolower [HTTP::host]]
        if \{$url ne "es.sites.xxx.com"\} \{
            switch [whereis [IP::client\_addr] country] \{


                        ES       \{ HTTP::redirect http://es.xxx.com \}
                        IT        \{ HTTP::redirect http://it.xxx.com \}
                        BR      \{ HTTP::redirect http://br.xxx.com \}
                        MX     \{ HTTP::redirect http://mex.xxx.com \}


            \}
        \}
\}

We actually do not support the “whereis  country” instruction, but it can easily be replaced by a check of the “Accept-Language” header, which will be even more precise in general, and also faster as you don’t need to wait for the “whereis” instruction to be executed.

I had also to adapt the behavior of the “switch” instruction with the “-glob” option which allows to specify meta characters to make it easier in terms of programing and reading

Here is the resulting aFlex

when HTTP\_REQUEST \{
        set url [string tolower [HTTP::host]]
        if \{$url ne "es.sites.xxx.com"\} \{
            switch -glob [HTTP::header "Accept-language"] \{


                        es-ES\*       \{ HTTP::redirect http://es.xxx.com \}
                        it-IT\*        \{ HTTP::redirect http://it.xxx.com \}
                        pt-BR\*      \{ HTTP::redirect http://br.xxx.com \}
                        es-MX\*     \{ HTTP::redirect http://mex.xxx.com \}


            \}
       \}
\}

Job done ;-)