APIM gateway url is redirecting in browser to wrong backend url, but not with curl and in API Designer Test

Question

Hello,
I encountered the following behaviour.

I have a test-setup running here:
https://fnappmiqnetek5loc4.azure-api.net/

Running curl https://fnappmiqnetek5loc4.azure-api.net/ returns the correct result. As well as running this in the APIM -> API -> Get Root -> Test view.

But opening this in the browser redirects the browser url to: https://fnappmiqnetek5loc4.azure-api.net/get_root Which is wrong.

Here is my setup:

Policies

<policies>
    <inbound>
        <base />
        <set-backend-service backend-id="functionsapp-backend" />
        <rewrite-uri template="/get_root" />
    </inbound>
    <backend>
        <base />
    </backend>
    <outbound>
        <base />
    </outbound>
    <on-error>
        <base />
    </on-error>
</policies>

API

Backend

Please let me know if there is any other information you need to understand the issue. Any help would be appreciated.

Thank you!

Answer 1

Hi , If you want to remove the rewrite behavior and keep the original URL intact, you should remove or modify that line. Here's an updated version of your policies without the URI rewrite:

<policies>
    <inbound>
        <base />
        <set-backend-service backend-id="functionsapp-backend" />
        <!-- Remove the rewrite-uri line to keep the original URL -->
    </inbound>
    <backend>
        <base />
    </backend>
    <outbound>
        <base />
    </outbound>
    <on-error>
        <base />
    </on-error>
</policies>

Answer 2

kiecodes Thanks for your engagement in the community and glad to hear that your issue was resolved. Since the Microsoft Q&A community has a policy that the question author cannot accept their own answer, they can only accept answers by others, I'll repost your own solution in case you'd like to Accept the answer.

Resolution:

The issue appeared to be a caching issue and it worked as expected later.